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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Real Madrid sex scandal: Raul Asencio SPLITS with his lawyer in trial over shocking video of minor allegedly having sex with three team-mates
Raul Asencio has split with his lawyer as the Real Madrid defender fights to prove he is innocent of soliciting a sex video which allegedly included a minor. Asencio, 22, is accused of distributing footage involving a girl, who was 16 at the time it was filmed, and doing so knowing she did not give her permission for it to be taken. The centre-back has a rising status in the game and started both Champions League semi-final legs against Arsenal after becoming a first-team regular this season. The video was allegedly filmed by former youth team-mates Ferran Ruiz, 22, Andres Garcia, 22, and Juan Rodriguez, 23, in June 2023, involving the girl and another who was 18 at the time. The three footballers are accused of 'disclosure of secrets without consent, and violation of privacy, distributing and sending videos to third parties without consent, capturing and using minors for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography'. Asencio and the three other players were arrested at Real Madrid's training centre in September 2023 following a complaint lodged by the mother of the 16-year-old girl who allegedly appears in the video. Article 197 of Spain's Criminal Code states that any individual convicted of recording and sharing an explicit video of a minor will face between three-and-a-half and five years in prison. This would drop to a two-and-a-half to four-year prison sentence if found guilty of non-consensual recording. If Asencio is culpable of only sharing the video the sentence would be expected to be less severe. Asencio was being representated by Juango Ospina, a high-profile, Harvard-trained lawyer based in Madrid. However, he will now be defended by Alfonso Morales Camprubi who is part of Real Madrid's in-house legal team. Morales Camprubi was part of Real's legal team for the trial that saw three men each receive eight-month prison sentences for making racist remarks and gestures toward Vinícius Jr at a La Liga match against Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium in May 2023. Following his arrest in 2023, Asencio tried to have his part in the case dismissed in February by appealing to end the investigation into his alleged role, however a judge decided to uphold the decision to move ahead with the inquiry. The judge at the Gran Canaria High Court said there was enough evidence to support allegations of violation of privacy, distribution of videos to third parties without the victims' knowledge or consent, solicitation of a minor for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography. 🚨 COMUNICADO OFICIAL DE ASENCIO 🚨 Quiero reiterar, una vez más, mi absoluto respeto por los derechos a la libertad sexual y a la intimidad de todas las mujeres. ESTAMOS CONTIGO @RaulAsencio7 👏🏻 — REAL MADRID FANS 🤍 (@AdriRM33) May 15, 2025 Last month, Asencio released a length statement maintaining his innocence. 'I have not participated in any behaviour that violates the sexual freedom of any woman, much less minors,' the statement read. 'I would like to reiterate, once again, my absolute respect for the rights to sexual freedom and privacy of all women.'
BBC News
20-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Hardest league in world can also be greatest place to learn'
You are Andres Garcia. You are 22 years old and six weeks ago you were playing in the Spanish second division. You were quietly impressing good judges, but mostly unknown outside that league, yet to experience top-division or international football at any you are at Villa Park, playing in the world's biggest domestic league, selected by one of your country's most decorated coaches. Just a few yards away is Marco Asensio, among the finest players in your nation's recent history. And facing you is many people's idea of the strongest side in all the noise and pomp, you settle to your work, shuttling up and down your flank, you fizz over a couple of good crosses, win a corner, rouse the fans in the North Stand. You seem to belong then, for only an instant, your concentration glitches under pressure. Your pass runs straight to Diogo Jota. You clasp your hands to your head, helpless, and in just four seconds Liverpool turn your mistake into a stare at the turf. Now what? Do you shrink or stand up?"The young players, they have to get their own process," Unai Emery told me later. "I think Andres Garcia's potential is really huge, we can exploit, and because his orientation with us has been so quick, he is not really playing feeling uncomfortable. He is playing more or less in our idea, getting his position and getting his qualities in our structure. His process is like that."Emery trusts his processes and Garcia should too. Hopefully, he was reassured by his manager's faith in his ability and by the very fast response of several of his team-mates, who were clearly alert to the danger that their inexperienced colleague might be swamped by emotion and his great credit, Garcia got back to work, contributed well and was warmly applauded when substituted in the second half."He can make some mistakes, but learn quick, and try to do the process always looking forward," said Emery. "[He is] as well being very demanding himself every day... his attitude is fantastic, this is the most important of course."Wherever Garcia's career takes him, he will doubtless remember this night and that moment. It must have been deeply painful, but there is good reason to think this promising young player - the least heralded and therefore perhaps most interesting of Villa's recent signings - will be stronger for having experienced hardest league in the world can also be the greatest place to to full commentary of Aston Villa v Chelsea at 17:30 GMT on Saturday on BBC Radio WMTune into The West Midlands Football Phone-In from 18:00 on weeknights
