The singer Diego ‘El Cigala’ He will be tried on November 7 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz) for crimes of abuse and humiliation towards his wife, judicial sources confirmed.
The Criminal Court number 3 of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), has set this date, after a postponement, for the trial of certain events for which the singer was detained in a hotel in Madrid in June 2021, after his partner at the time reported him at a police station in Jerez de la Frontera. In July 2023, the president of the Jerez Court of Violence against Women proposed that Diego “El Cigala” be tried by the court. crimes of abuse and continued humiliation to his ex-wife.
This ended the investigations opened in June 2021, when the singer was arrested in a Madrid hotel in June 2021, after his then partner went to a police station in Jerez de la Frontera, where he resides, to report him for physical and psychological harm. The Jerez police requested that the singer be arrested at the Madrid hotel where he was staying and he spent a night at the police station. The judge released him while the Jerez court, which initiated the procedure based on the complaint, continues the investigation.
Accordingly, on 30 December 2020, the President of the Violence against Women Court issued the abridged procedural order, which terminated the investigation and proposed that he be tried. Finally, the Criminal Court number 3 of Jerez set this trial for the next November 7th.
“Women always want money”
After being released, Diego Ramon Jimenez Salazar made his first statements to the media, assuring that the reason for his arrest They were “the money”: “Women always want money”. On his
“I was not referring to all the women in the world, but to just one, precisely the one with whom I have an economic disagreement,” he explained, adding: “I am not perfect and I have made mistakes in my life (…) but God is my witness that I have always acted with the heart and in good faith.
El Cigala’s ex-wife: “He grabbed me by the neck and said ‘whore, I’m going to shit on your dead, I’m going to kill you'”
The newspaper ‘Caso Abierto’ has had exclusive access to the complaint that the ex-wife of ‘El Cigala’ filed at the police station in Jerez de la Frontera on June 9, 2021, in which she claimed to have “very scared“For her and her children. “So far, I have endured this situation for the children, but I can’t take it anymore,” she confessed.
“I accused him of possible infidelity and he responded by beating me. I was punched several times in various parts of my body and pushed around. When I was already on the ground, he kicked me several times. After a few days, he acted with me as if nothing had happened. Then I blamed him for what had happened and he told me: I didn’t beat you, if I beat you, you don’t tell me,” the woman said.
Furthermore, he recorded the many humiliations he suffered throughout their relationship: “It was common for Ramón, for some reason, to address me. Calling me ‘bitch, bastard’ or telling me ‘I shit on your dead’. I even went so far as to ask for forgiveness so that the situation would not get worse.”
Diego “El Cigala” was also convicted in 2014 by the Court of Instruction number 12 of Madrid for a lack of threats towards a flight attendantfor which she had to pay a fine of 20 days at a rate of six euros per day, 245 euros for the days of incapacity for work, in addition to 1,200 euros for the consequences suffered and 2,520 euros for the medical expenses incurred.
