Seventeen Mexican dancers that are formed in the musical MalincheNacho Cano have filed a complaint against the police for coercion and falsification of documents when they were questioned as part of the police investigation that led to the arrest of the producer last week.

According to legal sources confirmed to laSexta, the interns of the Nacho Cano musical have filed 17 individual complaintswhich will be brought before different courts, but which refer to the same facts: inappropriate treatment by the police, with coercion and “manipulated” documents. The first complaint has been filed with the Court of Instruction number 38 of Plaza de Castilla, which is likely to end up merging the rest, other sources have specified.

It was last June 17 when twelve agents broke into the Madrid church where the dancers were rehearsing and told them that a work inspection was being carried out, after which they took them to the police station for several hours to ask them about their conditionssomething that according to the complainants is already irregular.

They were also coerced and even produced “manipulated” documents, the sources explain. They also consider it irregular that they did not have access to the complaint in which a member of the cast denounced Nacho Cano for the alleged illegal hiring of immigrants, and which was filed months before, although it was not until after the arrest that it was brought to court.

Nacho Cano, former member of the band Mecano, was arrested last day 9 and taken to police custody for alleged crimes against workers’ rights and promoting illegal immigration, according to police. A 54-year-old Mexican woman from his team was also arrested that same day.

The musician and producer was released awaiting a summons to the court in which the case was brought, which is finally the 19th Court of Instruction of Madrid. As explained by Cano himself and his legal team in a press conference after his arrest, the origin of the complaint is in a scholarship program – in agreement with a school – that he set up to bring young talent for the future premiere of Malinche in Mexico.

It was one of the scholarship recipients, whom he described as “conflictive” and who he dismissed, who supposedly filed the complaint, Cano added, who went so far as to say: “The criminal is not me, it is the policeare the ones who need to be investigated,” and accused the agents of detaining him “for 10 minutes” to take “the photo” and leak it to the media.

This young whistleblower has publicly explained that the dancers had come to Spain warned that they had to go through controls as if they were tourists, they were forced to work from Monday to Saturday for twelve hours, and they were in “terrible conditions” and They only received about 300 euros a monthThe rest of the Mexican showbiz interns supported Nacho Cano at his press conference and then publicly defended the producer.