The well-known music producer and former member of Mecano has been arrested and later released, and has given rise to an entire conspiracy theory due to his arrest.
The National Police has arrested Nacho Cano, recognized music producer and former member of Mecano, the emblematic Spanish group author of successful hymns such as ‘Son of the Moon’, ‘Woman against Woman’ or Makeup’.
The arrest occurred following accusations that Cano employed undocumented immigrants in its current musical production ‘Malinche’, which narrates the love story between the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Mexican slave.
Cano was later released and is awaiting trial. receive the court summons who investigates the facts. After his put in LibertyCano offered a press conference in which he explained that a scholarship program does not mean taking jobs away from Spaniards.
“Sometime last year he called me Jimena Carraza of the House of Mexico and he tells me that they are going to create a scholarship program and that they have decided to give three to ‘Malinche’. as we had premiere planned in Mexico For next year, we expand the scholarship program to 19 people. I go to Mexico, we do the casting and the people are chosen. “We are not talking about bringing in workers to take jobs away from people here.”
He added that Mexicans who participate in ‘Malinche’** receive a remuneration of 500 euros per month and they live in a hostel with the teachers. “We started this scholarship program in collaboration with the school, making sure everything was developed correctly,” Cano added. “At no time was replaces workers; “they come to add.”
Cano did not end things there and shook the conspiracy theory for his arrest. “I am not the criminal, it is the police who should be investigated,” she declared. “All this has been orchestrated by the police. It’s like the Stasi. “It’s a dirty and disgusting operation.”
He explained that 12 police officers They showed up two weeks ago at the school where classes are taught, and that the agents They took the interns to the police station. “You don’t need 12 police officers unless you want to crush, coerce,” she added.
Cano also stated that his detention It is an action “aimed” at detracting attention from Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the goverment Spanish socialist, Pedro Sánchez, currently on trial.
Gómez has received a court summons for July 5, in relation to a corruption investigation about their business activities. The summons occurs after the opening of a preliminary investigation into Gómez in April, related to “the alleged crimes of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling,” according to the court.
Cano also reiterated that it is friend of the president of the Popular Party conservative of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, which in his opinion influenced his arrest. “My closeness to Isabel Díaz Ayuso is the key to everything.”
“You have to draw attention from another side other than the iamputation of the wife of the president of the Government, and I am a friend of Ayuso and I am not leftist because I am not an idiot. “This is all part of the agenda to go after me.” “If they find me dead in the gutter, you know who it was,” he added.
It’s not the first scandal unleashed by the artist Spanish in relation to his work ‘Malinche’. While promoting it before its premiere, Cano gave an interview to the Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ in which he said: “If we had not discovered America, Hitler would have won World War II.” And he added: “Thanks to Christopher Columbus or Hernán Cortés, we now have the iPhone” and “Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and El Salvador should be grateful because if it had been the English, they would not have left a single one alive,” in reference to the arrival to America.
Cano was also seen embroiled in controversy for the 30-meter-high Aztec pyramid that he proposed to build for the show. The project was going to have more than 1,000 locations y a parking lot with 400 spaces in the Hortaleza district. However, the neighbors were not very happy with the plans and started a petition that gathered nearly 20,000 signatures to stop the construction of the pyramid and the parking lot.
Additional sources • El Pais, El Mundo, Hortaleza Neighborhood Newspaper
