Diego ‘El Cigala’ Sentenced to Jail for Abuse In opposition to Ex-Spouse

The Spanish flamenco singer Diego “El Cigala” was once sentenced to 2 years and one month in jail for abuse dedicated in opposition to his ex-partner, flamenco singer Kina Méndez, in line with Spanish media together with newspapers El País, El Mundo and El Diario de Jerez. The sentence, which will also be appealed, was once introduced on Tuesday (Dec. 17) by way of the click workplace of the Prime Court docket of Justice of Andalusía (Tribunal Awesome de Justicia de Andalucía).

“The pass judgement on imposes the sentence for 3 crimes within the box of violence in opposition to ladies dedicated in Jerez de los angeles Frontera and a resort in Palafrugell (Girona), and in addition reveals him in charge of some other minor and steady offense of harassment within the home sphere, enforcing 25 days of an everlasting location, all the time in a distinct place of abode and clear of the sufferer’s place of abode, along with the prohibition of communique and drawing near inside of 200 meters of the sufferer for 6 months, a measure commonplace to the remainder of the opposite crimes,” in line with El País.

The conviction would correspond to 3 particular episodes of abuse, El País experiences. The primary, relationship from the summer season of 2017, was once in a resort in Jerez de los angeles Frontera, the place he “slapped her within the face” right through a dialogue on “the average spaces” as a result of she had requested him to stick with her son as an alternative of going out. The second one, two years later in some other resort in Palafrugell (Girona), was once “within the context of a heated verbal war of words,” when the singer “gave her a push that made her fall to the bottom, and whilst [she was] mendacity at the floor, persisted hitting and kicking her frame,” in line with El Mundo. The 3rd case of abuse took place in November 2020, when, whilst on the area in Jerez de los angeles Frontera, he “grabbed Méndez by way of the neck,” shouting, “I’ll s–t to your ancestors” as a result of she had reproached him for the usage of medication in entrance in their youngsters, El País experiences.

Billboard Español has reached out to Diego El Cigala for remark.

All through the trial in Jerez, Diego “El Cigala” declared Nov. 7, “I’ve by no means laid a hand on a girl,” in line with El Diario de Jerez. Méndez, whose actual identify is Dolores Ruiz Méndez, mentioned on the identical listening to that she by no means went to the physician together with her accidents as a result of she sought after to patch issues up together with her companion, with whom she mentioned she was once all the time “very a lot in love,” and that she didn’t file him sooner than “out of disgrace.”

Diego “El Cigala,” 55, is without doubt one of the maximum known flamenco singers of latest years in Spain and out of the country. Winner of 5 Latin Grammys, his hits come with “Si Tú Me Dices Ven,” “Moreno Soy” and “Lágrimas Negras.”

In 2021, the artist, whose actual identify is Ramón Jiménez Salazar, was once already beneath investigation for alleged gender violence following accusations made by way of Méndez, who, in line with El País, were in a dating with El Cigala since 2014.