The Actual Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and three former youth gamers on the membership are to face trial in reference to the alleged filming and distribution of sexual movies involving two girls, one in all whom was a minor on the time.
In response to courtroom paperwork, three of the defendants are accused of “one depend of distributing little one pornography, in addition to two offences towards privateness”. Their bail has been set at €20,000 every (£17,400). The fourth, who is known to be Asencio, is accused of two offences towards privateness and has had his bail set at €15,000.
The choice to proceed to trial was introduced by the judicial authorities on Thursday. It follows a police and judicial investigation into the case, which is alleged to have concerned two girls, aged 18 and 16, and to have occurred in a non-public space of a seaside membership on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on 15 June 2023.
Prosecutors are reported to be searching for a sentence of two years and 6 months for Asencio, and sentences of 4 years and 7 months for the opposite three, who've been named within the media as Asencio's former colleagues Andrés García, Ferrán Ruiz and Juan Rodríguez.
One of many alleged victims has included all 4 of the defendants in her accusations, whereas the opposite has excluded Asencio from her grievance.
In September 2023, three unnamed Actual Madrid reserve gamers have been arrested in reference to the alleged incident and have been launched after the info on their cell phones was seized.
In feedback launched after the choose concluded a pre-trial investigation, Asencio mentioned he had “by no means taken half in any behaviour that has threatened any girl's sexual freedom, a lot much less that of a minor”. He mentioned he had not been concerned in recording or distributing the movies, and had solely “briefly seen the content material”. The participant, who's alleged to have proven one of many movies to a good friend, additionally careworn the significance of the presumption of innocence.
Police mentioned the case had adopted a grievance filed by the mom of a 16-year-old woman within the Canary islands concerning an alleged recording of sexual relations. They added that whereas the woman maintained the relations have been consensual, the recording had been made with out her consent and that she had just lately turn out to be conscious of it.
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Actual Madrid issued a press release on the time saying {that a} whole of 4 youth staff gamers had been questioned by police “in reference to a grievance about an alleged launch of a non-public video through WhatsApp” messaging system.
