2024-09-25 19:31:28
The woman reported the incident the day after the match, the moment of which was captured by the official broadcast. This is what the footballer said on his social networks.
During this Thursday, September 12, the Spanish footballer Hugo Mallo was found guilty of sexual abuse for groping a woman dressed as the rival team’s mascot, specifically Espanyol, for which he will have to pay a fine fine and compensation for moral damages.
The 33-year-old player who at the time belonged to the LaLiga club, Celtic Vigo and who now plays for the Greek club Aris of Thessaloniki, He was declared “responsible for the crime of sexual abuse,” according to a court ruling in the city of Barcelona.
For this reason, the right-back was sentenced to a fine of 20 months with a daily fee of 10 euros. and to compensate the victim with 1,000 euros for moral damages, which translates into $1.037.410 Chileans.
When did the incident involving Hugo Mallo occur in Spanish football?
The event occurred on April 24, 2019when the footballers were greeting each other before the match between Celta de Vigo and Espanyol. After that, the captain of the Celta team passed close to the woman who was dressed as a parakeet “with the intention of satisfying his lustful desire and undermining her sexual integrity, He put his hands under her costume and touched her breasts.”according to the ruling.
Given this situation, the document maintains that the woman had no other option than “step back and push the accused away with your right hand”.
Hugo Mallo’s response after being convicted of sexual abuse
After the sentence was announced, footballer Hugo Mallo issued a statement through his social networks, where he assured that he continues to “firmly deny the facts attributed to me in the aforementioned sentence and I communicate my total disagreement with the arguments of the same.”
The 33-year-old player then said that “once the analysis of the resolution is concluded, the appropriate appeal will be filed before the Provincial Court of Barcelona.”
Along these lines, the defender pointed out that “in light of the information that has appeared, I want to highlight that the sentence states that my tone in the statement was firm and free of any contradiction, in which I acknowledged that, at the end of the greetings and turning around to go to the centre of the field, my hand could have touched the waist of the parakeet, absolutely denying that any touching of the parakeet’s breasts had occurred.”
To close, Hugo Mallo announced that “I will exhaust all necessary instances to defend my innocence.” regarding some facts for which I absolutely deny any authorship.”