The celebrities in the projection room corresponded to what normally happens behind the scenes, but outside the artist has monopolized the cameras. The trial against bailiff Rafael Amargo, his producer Eduardo de Santos and another man named Miguel Ángel Batista León for drug trafficking was suspended this Wednesday because the former resigned from his lawyer due to “loss of confidence” in extreme cases. In a lengthy and incoherent presentation in court, De Santos asserted that the prosecution’s case was trying to cover up an alleged police conspiracy involving “Minister Marlasca” and that he knew everything because he received an audio recording of it a “21-year-old gypsy orphan” in which everything is revealed.
“As a producer, I’m preparing a series that I already have the script for, and thanks to that work I got an audio recording. It came to me because there are many ways to do this job. That’s when I received the audio recording of an orphaned 21-year-old gypsy camel,” explained the producer, who worked with Amargo on the show Yerma. This work was due to be published when the first arrest for alleged methamphetamine trafficking occurred in 2020 at the artist’s home in Madrid’s Malasaña district. According to De Santos, this audio is evidence that this trial is being used to cover up another trial involving Secretary Marlasca but there are fears of an investigation. “I’m not afraid of the prosecutor or the rule of law. I was abused and coerced for almost three years and no one listened to me except you here,” he said.
The President of the Court, who actually listened very patiently, asked him at the time not to deviate from the subject of his lawyer’s resignation. The judge also reminded him that he had refused legal representation “three or four times”. “That’s the second case, Your Honor. The first asked me for money to make photocopies and I gave it up the same day,” he argued. His current attorney supported the resignation, stating that the defendant never showed up for the meetings he had arranged. “I lost my phone and I don’t have access to email or the agenda,” he apologized.
Bitter didn’t open his mouth during the half-hour of the hearing, during which the judge gave the producer 24 hours to appoint a new attorney, otherwise one will be appointed ex officio. The trial has been postponed and a new date must be found in a crowded court calendar. Amargo responded to the news with his head bowed, massaging his forehead with his hands and receiving the love of his sister, who touched his back from the back seat. It was at the exit that he stopped to speak to the flood of journalists waiting for him on the steps. “I ask humanity to end this. There are many things behind it that should be investigated and that is not being done,” Amargo defended. After that first angry intervention, he paused twice more, like two encores of a show.
“Let the truth come out,” the artist asked.
“And what is the truth, Rafael?” the reporters replied.
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“That there was nothing here, that other things are being covered up and that a family is being destroyed,” Amargo defended.
“Do you think you’re going to jail?” continued another journalist.
“How do you want me to go to jail,” he defended himself.
Amargo has assured that he had to sell an apartment to face this process, that there is nothing here in the matter being judged, “ENE A DE A,” he spelled, insisting to journalists , that she must have humanity because “here we are all human” and that this all affects his ailing father and that he has received threats. He has also accused the Atresmedia show Investigation Team of recording an episode about him this Wednesday and “not showing his face”. “What do I need of it? This is where things were placed and the artist’s face was used,” he affirmed, referring to himself in the third person.
According to the police investigation, there is little more than “nothing” at the entrances and exits of the artists’ house in Malasaña. Prosecutors are seeking nine years in prison for him and the producer for “continuous” drug trafficking. According to the State Department’s filing, Amargo and its manufacturer sold drugs in the home and also made home deliveries made by the other defendant who was with them in the trial. Investigators claim that Amargo has been operating this drug trade since at least April 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. The investigators found 100 grams of methamphetamine, 40 grams of ketamine and three popper bottles in the files.
Furthermore, they claim that he continued his illegal activities after the initial arrest. According to the investigation, following the arrest, complaints continued to be received from neighbors, who pointed to the constant movement of alleged clients, who they said were queuing even on the landing. For this reason, Amargo was arrested again in March at the exit of a performance in Alicante.
Bitter closed the cab door and drove away in the rain. It won’t be the last time he has to walk up those stairs to meet the judge.
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