Barcelona Court condemned more than 10 years imprisonment He told a former member of the Colla de los Castellers of Barcelona, after admitting at a hearing in the seventh division court: sexually assaulted nine girls Minors between 2014 and 2019.
Since the public ministry initially requested the former goalkeeper, the court convicted the defendant after the defendant admitted the facts before the court, following an agreement between all parties (Prosecution and defense). 39 years in prison.
The former member of Barcelona Colla de Castellers was accused of sexually assaulting nine underage girls over a five-year period, whom he invited to his home under the pretext that he knew how to massage and took the opportunity to touch their private parts. or rubbing each other.
Now the public ministry has punished him. 10 years and six months in prisonIn addition to the fine of 1,080 euros, there is also a ban on approaching the victims for a period of five to six years longer than the prison sentence imposed and compensation of 6,000 euros each.
The defense lawyer, on the other hand, will request the postponement of the prison sentence after the sentence is finalized, since none of the crimes are equal to or more than two years in prison and, according to legal sources, the Prosecutor’s Office is not interested in the issue. will oppose.
The sentence, which coincided with the story of the public ministry, benefited from the trust that the victims and their families placed in it. They saw him as a “mentor” and he deceived them so they would go to his house with the excuse that he would treat them to sweets or their favorite foods and also that he knew how to give massages.
The defendant took advantage of this trust and the excuse of a massage to tell them to “stay in their panties and t-shirts” and “take off their pants and bras” to touch or touch their private parts. According to the article, to be “comfortable” in order to see his “anatomy” better.
The court states that he held one of the young women “with her arm resting on his erect penis” while “she was lying on the defendant’s sofa bed, under the pretext of giving a massage.” “I caress her.” She moved the wrist from top to bottom and left it there for a few minutes until she responded.
Considering the situation she was experiencing, the young woman said, “He decided to pretend to be asleep so he could turn over and change his position.“.
In another incident, the convicted man invited some young women to his house to sleep because they returned too late from the Valls Festival (Tarragona) in June 2018, and while at home he gave them a massage and eventually touched their buttocks. , according to the article.
The same morning – the sentence says this – one of them woke up with some moans and saw how she was masturbating while watching them.
Although the conviction was the result of an agreement between the parties, because of the high demand for conviction, a portion of the trial had to be held for sentencing, in which many victims confirmed the attacks carried out by the convicted person. He had exposed them.
Colla de Castellers in Barcelona stated in a statement on the day of the hearing that the defendant had already filed a criminal complaint. He was temporarily expelled from the organization when they realize the facts.
The organization later stated that once the conviction was made public, the organization’s board of directors would begin the process of “final deportation” of him, adding that he “had been at the disposal of justice and the Mossos de ‘Squadron all this time.”