The National Police have already sent their report to the Plaza de Castilla courts in Madrid. about the music producer Nacho Cano and the accusations that a dozen employees were in an irregular situation. Shortly after his arrest, the former member of Mecano reported that he had been led on victim of a police conspiracy in retaliation for publicly supporting Isabel Díaz Ayuso. This Wednesday the newspaper El País publishes that the 17 young people who appeared yesterday to defend the producer have been denied their study permits since May and are therefore required to leave the country and return to Mexico. Also that they rehearsed 10 hours a day and that some served drinks in the show bar to earn some extra money.
The producer of the musical 'Malinche' was arrested yesterday at the police station on Leganitos Street in Madrid after being reported for alleged irregular practices in hiring young people for his show. It is investigating, on the one hand, a crime against the rights of workers and, on the other, a second crime against the rights of foreign citizens, with the investigation focusing on fifteen young Mexicans who came to Madrid six months ago to be “interns”, Cano himself explained yesterday, to train the musical and bring it to his country.
Police sources cited by the PRISA group newspaper explain that they have all been “deceived” by Cano and that since last May they have been working on the show for months “without a contract” and with denied study permits. A permit that, according to this information, the government delegation denied them because they did not have any form of ongoing training accredited.
Contrary to what Cano's lawyers said yesterday at a press conference, in which they stated that everything stemmed from a complaint by a dancer with a “problematic attitude”, these police sources claim that a study permit had been granted for her first two months of stay in Spain. requested. But in May, the authorities ordered everyone to leave the country.
They also talk about the conditions in which they found themselves. Stayed in a hostel in the center of Madrid, as Cano himself reported, and without being aware that they were in an irregular situation. They shared rooms and were given a menu of 10 euros per day in the same establishment, having to pay for breakfast and dinner out of their own pockets with a payment of 20 euros on weekends in addition to the 300 euros per month that they received later. increased to 500 euros.
According to the complaint that the police have already sent to the Madrid courts, the young people rehearsed ten hours a day from Monday to Saturday and if they wanted to earn more, they worked at the bar of the 'Canalla' bar at the end of the performance of the musical.
Statements that refute what was defended yesterday at a press conference by the music producer, accompanied not only by his lawyers, but also by 17 of these young people who claim to have had a “scholarship” for the past six months with the aim of training and in a while being able to develop the show “Malinche” in Mexico.
A performance in which the musician not only defended the cleanliness of all recruitment procedures and the scholarship system, but also pointed out a police line-up to harm him for supporting Isabel Díaz Ayuso: “If they find me dead in the gutter, you already know who it was,” continued the producer.