One of the first appointments of Joan Laporta since he was elected president of Barcelona was to replace Albert Benaiges, who had led for 20 years the glorious youth department of the Catalans, perhaps the largest in the world, probably in the last two decades. For a long time Benaiges proudly led the players who became Barça’s golden queue, led of course by Leo Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and others he discovered.
To the figure she has many rights in Barcelona are now added serious suspicions of harassment and sexual abuse of children at a school in Barcelona, when he was a physical education teacher at a local school for 38 years. According to an investigation by the ‘ara’ network in Spain, among the testimonies there is serious harassment towards boys and girls at the age of 13 in which he touched both showers and watched porn movies alongside them. Benaiges abruptly resigned from Barcelona a few days ago and now the reason is clear. It should be noted that it is not yet clear, according to the investigation, whether sexual offenses were also committed in Barcelona’s department.
Many years after the events, a number of children decided to file a complaint with the police and tell about what happened. One girl who did this claimed sexual assaults on his part, ones that left her many scars. Benaigas, who was born in Mexico in 1955, was fired from Barcelona on December 2, a day after the club learned of an investigation being carried out into him. Benaiges was very popular at the club and as mentioned he was a major partner in the development of the players who led the club, but the hard evidence revealed while teaching at the school in Barcelona is very disturbing. “He would pinch us in our underwear,” says the same girl who complained.
Another man claimed: “He made me touch him and he touched me everywhere.” He further said that he saw the teacher carrying out his plot next to him: “It was very traumatic. It was abuse. We could not tell anyone about it. He would touch the girls in the ass as they entered the shower. He touched everyone and would go into the showers. He would tell the boys what he saw in the girls in the showers. He forced two girls to undress in the boys’ locker room. One time he took off his pants and asked ‘Are you ashamed of it?’. These were terrible things. “
Benaiges himself has partially denied the allegations. On the one hand he regretted, but claimed: “I do not remember anything like that, I do not think I did anything bad. I never hurt anyone. I have an adopted child, I never forced anyone and I did nothing criminal. I have a clear conscience. “
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