The Hispanic team issued a statement after the footballer’s arrest.Vidal will go to detention control for later formalization during this day.
The Spanish Union issued a statement referring to the complaint for rape against a minor (13 years old) that your player faces, Valentin Vidal, 20 years old.
The midfielder and La roja Sub 20 team was arrested this Wednesday, after removed the victim from school without permission from his family, posing as his cousin.
In the midst of this investigation carried out by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, and while waiting for the detention control and subsequent formalization, The First division team addressed the complex situation that the player is going through.
“These are facts whose details our club is unaware of and which must be thoroughly investigated by the Public Ministry with full respect for the guarantees of all those involved,” Unión Española began by saying.
To which the colony team added: “Along with this we state that the possible events have not arisen within the framework of activities inherent to the established work activity and, without prejudice to this, we express our complete willingness to collaborate in the investigation that enables the full clarification of the facts.”
“Likewise we advocate that the corresponding sanctions are applied if appropriate“,they emphasized from the club.
“in response to the judicial process that is being carried out, Unión Española expressly declares that any conduct constituting sexual abuse, sexual harassment or other crimes of this nature, It is deeply rejected by our institution and radically deviates from our values and also from the preventive protocols that we have developed in this matter.“, they closed in Unión Española in thier statement regarding the complaint against Valentín Vidal.
This article reports on an ongoing judicial process, so people identified as detained or charged should not be considered guilty or treated in this very way until they are convicted by a final sentence (Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Code).
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