Number of complaints about carlos fernandez (Puig-reig, 1959), master karate between Bordeaux Sportsrose nine, according to sources cited by EL PERIÓDICO from the Prensa Ibérica group. Some are on trial for alleged sexual assault before walking through this gym. Two in particular were presented. former student from your school La Salle Gracia related to Barcelona and the crimes committed late 80’s and early 90’s. This teacher taught minors eleven centers 40 years outside of Barcelona. In addition, as this newspaper can confirm, Fernández had already been arrested. sexual abuse in 1998. “It’s a predator, there will probably be many more victims,” say two of La Salle’s victims.
Fernández was arrested on May 18. Mossos d’Esquadra Following a complaint from the family of a minor boy he was teaching karate at Esportiu Claret. On 20 May, Fernández was detained as a precautionary measure by order of the Barcelona court of the 24th instance. This complaint eventually arrested a pedophile who sexually abused boys for 4 yearsguarded by students’ admiration for their ‘sensei’, fearful of his black belt, and a distinguished reputation in Catalonia’s karate scene.
11 different centers
Fernández began teaching karate to minors at the club in 1982. Shere Khan from Barcelona. He changed headquarters in 1984 and worked at the club. set up i mig From St Martinez de la Rosa. Four years later, the college’s AMPA Salle de Gràcia hired him to teach karate to students as an after-school activity. He was arrested by the National Police on August 11, 1998.
On his private website, where he vainly details each of his career achievements, he hides the arrest that forced him to close the Set i Mig club and also chronologically coincided with the end of his stage at La Salle. . Despite this complaint and his arrest for sexual harassment, Fernández, who managed to avoid prosecution, continued to be in contact with underage children who ignored this grave alarm, being retained by centres, some publicly provided and others subsidized.
moved in 1999 club 2000 and returned to a school in 2001, CEIP El Carmel. He joined as coach in 2002. podium from Barcelona. entered in 2003 Club Esportiu Mediterrani and in 2004, Eixample Fitness. Landed in 2005 Bordeaux Sports, where it currently collects most of the complaints. In 2013, he went out to teach karate for the first time outside of Barcelona, which he did as well. Dojo Cervantes from Mataró.
“The best teacher”
Until May 18 – he’s been behind bars ever since – Fernández combined his studies at Esportiu Claret with two weekly classes at Eixample Fitness. The owner of this last business goes to EL PERIÓDICO and emphasizes that Fernández is one of his best teachers. “He totally fooled us,” he says. “He seemed like someone who had values and took his job very seriously. He would come an hour early every day and thoroughly clean the tatami to keep it spotless for the kids,” he says.
“I put a towel on my head”
This newspaper interviewed two of Fernández’s victims. They are two former students of the university. Hall of Grace whose crimes are predetermined. Both belong to different generations and demand anonymity before making their case public.
The first former student was sexually assaulted by Fernández during various courses. They started when I was 11 years old. He explains that to gain his trust, the teacher said: qualifications for karate and that earned him three title changes in his first year.
“He then said I could help him teach the little ones. He made me feel special. He suggested that I start using his wardrobe and change with him.” The attacks started there. “I’ve always been high a towel or T-shirt over your face‘, he remembers. ‘And me blowjob or he went into me through the anus with his fingers,” he elaborates.
“He reassured me that these are things that everyone does, and he asked me not to say it,” he emphasizes. “I didn’t say anything to anyone. I don’t want my family to know now what happened then,” she begs.
“He locked me in his office in La Salle”
The second former student is slightly older than the first but was also abused by Fernández in the early ’90s: “He invited me to train with him at the Set i Mig club. For those at La Salle, Set i Mig were idols. my karate teacher wants to be with me On Eid day that tatami made me proud”, she admits.
Fernández sexually abused the child at the meeting on Saturday. After training, he suggested massaging her in the locker room to relieve the tension in her legs, undressing and finally getting a massage. masturbation. “I didn’t know what was going on. It took me many years to understand“, he assures. While he was carrying out the attack, someone knocked on the door and it saved the underage boy who managed to leave. But Fernández did not give up.
“He proposed again a few days later. I still don’t understand why I accepted, why I accepted. I didn’t understand what would happen. The second time, Carlos took me to La Salle gym in the basement. As soon as he locked me in his room because the school was closed, I knew this time no one would bother him.”
These two former students insist that it is important that other victims of Fernández’s abuse go to Mossos and file a complaint. “Even though they envisagedas in our case, everything he does should come to light so that minors burgundy Now those who condemn it are not alone.”