The National Police has arrested the actor Juan José Ballesta for allegedly attacking and steal money and a jacket from an acquaintance his, in the Madrid district of Hortaleza, police sources reported this Wednesday.
The events took place this Tuesday morning around 8:00 a.m., when the actor He met an acquaintance and, after getting into an argumentthey attacked each other.
During the fight, according to the same source, Ballesta He took the opportunity to steal the money and the jacket, after which he fled in a vehicle. He was later located and arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of robbery with violence.
The actor, furthermore, Is being investigated by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Parla (Madrid) for an alleged sexual assault committed last summer. The actor’s defense demanded that the case be filed, something that the judge denied, who agreed to gather new evidence requested by the prosecution.
The complainant’s lawyer, Juan Manuel Medina, had asked the court to take new steps to ratify the victim’s testimony, a 47-year-old woman who reported two different rapes by two men -one of them the actor- suffered in July.
Juan José Ballesta declared that he does not know the woman and that he has not agreed with her “nowhere”. On Telecinco, the actor claimed to be innocent: “I don’t know this woman at all, all of this is too big for me. This is crazy. I don’t know if she wants to do it for something economic or media-related, but I don’t know this woman.” . Ballesta also claimed to have a firm alibi: “That day I was giving dinner to my son“.