the dancer Raphael Bitter has been arrested again by agents of the National Police, this time in Alicante, where he performed this Thursday. According to what CASO ABIERTO, the Prensa Ibérica investigative and events channel, has learned, the crime of which he is accused is the same as the last time: drug traffic. And it would be the same prohibited substance, methamphetamine, also known as crystal and that became very popular after the ‘Breaking Bad’ series.
The new research on Madrid Police Headquartersled by the 27th investigating court, has gathered evidence that Amargo continued to sell methamphetamine from his house in the Malasaña neighborhood from Madrid. After his arrest, at the end of his performance in a nightclub, Bitter has been transferred to the Alicante police station.
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The police checked the movement of people who went to the house where Amargo lived, converted almost in a drugstorewhich provoked protests from its neighbors.
Some of the customers who came there refer to his camel as “Rafa, the one from the theater.” Last October, the bailaor and his partner left the house.
Last month, Amargo assured that he lived calmly in Alicante and was preparing a project on mental health with the University
Last February, Amargo reappeared before the press. He assured that he had moved to live in Alicante, where he was “happy, calm, living in front of the sea”. Then he added that he was “with a project at the University of mental health.”
9 years in prison
Bitter was already arrested at the end of 2020 at his home in Madrid for a similar crime in the framework of the ‘Corax operation’ (Cuervo). In the records of that operation, the police found more than 60 grams of methamphetamine, double what was considered by the Supreme Court as “of notorious importance” when assessing whether it is appropriate to sentence the people involved.
Methamphetamine is a drug that comes mainly from Mexico (a few years ago he came from Germany) and, once in the street, It sells for about eighty euros per gram, more than double the price of cocaineand is usually smoked in a pipe.
That case is still pending trial in the Provincial Court of Madrid (it will be held next June). The prosecution requests that Amargo be sentenced to nine years in prison for a continued crime against public health.
Precision scale
Then, the investigators also seized ketamine and liquid ecstasy, in addition to almost six thousand euros in cash. In the case of the goal, most of it, 63.4 grams, was at a producer’s house of theater who was also arrested. At Amargo’s house, the police found 0.4 grams.
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The dancer Raphael Bitter commented on one wiretapped telephone conversation by court order that he handled the drug “ten by ten”, alluding, according to the investigators’ interpretation, to grams of methamphetamine. In that same conversation, according to the drug prosecutor’s office, Amargo I was trying to get a lot more of that substance.
Bitter’s lawyer, Candid Count-Pumpido, then defended that this substance was not for sale. When he was arrested, Amargo had in his backpack a precision scale. His lawyer defends that it was to take the precise amounts of a product that he was taking to lose weight.