Juan López denounces his detention after spending 14 hours within the cell of MarbellaCedida.
A raid on the nightclub the place Juan López is the director ended with him being detained for a public well being crime. After 14 hours in jail, the choose launched him on provisional launch with out bail pending the outcomes of the toxicological check. the raid mistook flake salt for MDMA, he had it in his backpack to eat a ribeye at residence
Juan López is the director of the Bless nightclub, situated in Marbella. He was there on Friday, December 23, when, round two within the morning, brokers from the Local Police, National Police and Civil Guard arrived to hold out a search. According to the businessman, from one second to the subsequent, he was seen with {the handcuffs} on: “They took me out as if I had been a prison and took me to the dungeon,” Juan López instructed NIUS. The story “is surreal, it looks like a nightmare,” he admits.
At some level throughout the 14 hours that he was detained on the Marbella Police Station, he defined to the National Police brokers that, probably, his colleagues had confused the salt flakes that he stored in his backpack. He had taken it from one other restaurant that he’s additionally accountable for in Puerto Banús, to take it to his home.
“They arrived in very dangerous methods,” says Juan López, whereas recounting the moments of panic that had been skilled within the room that, at the moment, was full of individuals. While he was on the lookout for the native documentation, they searched his backpack that was contained in the bar and the brokers decided that what was inside a web page was medicine, particularly MDMA: “He had Maldon salt that he had saved for eat a steak at residence that my household had introduced”. For him, the story would have ended right here, or it could have had one other ending if, not less than, they’d let him communicate.
He by no means thought {that a} handful of salt would lead him to be arrested for a public well being crime. “They did not even present me what it was that they’d supposedly caught that motivated my arrest,” he recounts. The subsequent day he was taken from the dungeons to the courtroom. The choose decreed provisional launch with out bail pending the outcomes of the toxicological assessments that should arrive from the laboratory. Meanwhile, collectively along with his lawyer, he prepares the losses that this arrest has induced him to take authorized motion as a result of “I could not even open the enterprise the subsequent day.”