The 17 Mexican students who received scholarships for the musical ‘Malinche’ returned to the country Last Sunday, after a Spanish judge suspended his appearance for an alleged irregular hiring for that show, of the Spanish producer Macho Cano.
According to a statement from the production company’s lawyers released on Tuesday, The return was scheduled for September 1 after having completed the scholarship training program, The students were urgently summoned to testify last Thursday as witnesses and victims before returning to Mexico.
However, the statement was suspended because One of the suspects in the case, Roxana Drexel, could not be summoned. Director of Operations of ‘Malinche’, which prevents the possibility of contradiction between the parties from being guaranteed, as established by the Spanish Criminal Procedure Law.
On July 30, a criminal procedure was opened against Nacho Cano and three other people for the alleged illegal recruitment of immigrants for ‘Malinche’. They are also being investigated for alleged crimes against the rights of foreigners and workers.
The events are being investigated as a result of a complaint filed by Lesly Guadalupe OF, a dancer from Mexico who was selected in that country along with other participants in a casting to form part of the company ‘Malinche’.
According to the court order, the suspects, “intentionally”, They would have facilitated the entry of foreigners non-community without a work contract, but as touristswhich allows them to remain in Spanish territory for 90 days, “passing into an irregular situation” if they remain for longer.
The lawyers of the producer reiterated today, when The Mexican scholarship recipients, who arrived in December 2023, have had the opportunity to testify on several occasions before the Police“have always expressed in a united, firm and confident manner that are not victims of any kind of abuse or exploitation.”
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At the time, they added in the statement, “Students could perfectly enter Spain as tourists and once here apply for a student visa, as 95 percent of applicants do, and as the 2022 Immigration Law makes clear.”
The application for a student visa was submitted in a timely manner to the Government Delegation in Madrid, “which repeatedly denied it in an arbitrary and unjustifiable manner, a decision that has also been appealed in court.”