• TV El Cazador, the bombshell of RTVE, turns audiences upside down

David Leo one of the hunters of the famous contest El Cazador that is broadcast every afternoon on La 1 is prosecuted for an alleged crime of gender violence.

According to the newspaper Público, the Prosecutor's Office asks for the one known as El Estudiante a year in prison for an alleged crime of injury to his former partner, while charging him with another alleged crime of humiliation and insult of a minor nature in the field of gender violence. The hearing is scheduled for April next year.

In relation to El Cazador, RTVE has reported that "respects the presumption of innocence", as well as that "the recording of this season has ended and the producer, after talking with David Leo, has transmitted his intention to leave the program so as not to affect either his person or the judicial process in which he is immersed. "

Likewise, the Public Corporation is considering not broadcasting the programs already recorded in which David Leo appears as a hunter. RTVE is even studying how to modify the header of the program.

The indictment of the Prosecutor's Office states on February 25, David Leo, also winner of one of the boats of Pasapalabra, was at the Valencia hotel with his then partner, with whom he maintained a relationship for a year and seven months, when "with the intention of attacking the moral integrity of his partner", "He threw a towel soaked in water at her." Then he snapped: "Shut up, bitch; let me sleep, stop talking to your mother; I don't go with a cockroach; whore, you deprive me of sleep, torturer of sleep."

Three days later, on February 28, the complainant was staying at a hotel in Santiago de Compostela, and he, "with the intention of attacking the physical integrity" of her, threw a cigarette in her face, struggled with her, kicked her and made her fall to the ground.

The injury report provided to the court describes a left pretibial hematoma five centimeters in diameter; burn scab at the corner of the lips; excoriation in the left shoulder blade and left occipital pain.

David Leovigildo García (Malaga, 1988), Leo for his acquaintances, has a degree in Hispanic Philology and a postgraduate degree in Spanish Teaching. He has also studied literary theory, criticism, screenwriting and film direction -he has written, produced and directed the short film Yin Yang-, psychology and casino dealer.

He has been writing poetry since he was 13 years old. At 17 he won the Hyperion Prize for Urbi et orbi (2006), becoming the youngest winner in the history of the awards. He is also the author of Dime qué, which received the Cáceres World Heritage Award and Nueve meses sin lengua, among other publications.

As a contestant, he has participated in numerous television programs, such as Saber y ganar (where he obtained the status of "magnificent" in 2013), Pasapalabra (where he conquered the boat after 109 programs) and El Cazador, where he works since 2021.

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