earlier this week<\/a>, Asencio was convicted of driving while nearly four times over the legal alcohol limit.<\/p>\nThe defender admitted to driving while under the influence of alcohol during a trial at the High Court of Justice of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on August 19. He has been banned from driving and fined \u20ac14,400 (\u00a312,349; $16,668).<\/p>\n
The court heard that Asencio recorded an alcohol level of 0.90 mg\/l of breath \u2014 almost four times the legal limit of 0.25 mg\/l \u2014 during a breathalyser test in the south of Gran Canaria on August 16.<\/p>\n
What was the timeline of events?<\/p>\n
A complaint was filed by the younger of the two victims, accompanied by her mother, at Guardia Civil offices in the town of Santa Maria de Guia, close to Las Palmas in the north of Gran Canaria, on September 6, 2023. Subsequently, the second victim also filed a complaint.<\/p>\n
According to their testimony, which was leaked in Spanish media that year, the victims asked the players involved to delete the footage the same day they found out they had been recorded.<\/p>\n
One of them also said, speaking anonymously in an interview with Spanish newspaper Diario AS in September 2023, that the players told them they would delete the footage but had instead \u201ctransferred it to other mobiles\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to their leaked testimony, the victims said they did not find out until that August that the footage still existed and was allegedly being shared. They said they found out the footage had not been deleted when an acquaintance told them he had seen the video.<\/p>\n
On September 15, 2023, Guardia Civil police officers turned up at Madrid\u2019s training facilities, dressed in civilian clothes.<\/p>\n
Three players were arrested, while Asencio was spoken to as a witness. During the taking of statements, he went from being a witness to being investigated as a suspect.<\/p>\n
Each of the alleged victims later withdrew their allegations against all four defendants, but a judge ruled in July this must be repeated in court for it to be considered following a bid by Asencio\u2019s lawyers to have the charges against him thrown out.<\/p>\n
At that hearing, the lawyers representing the four men\u00a0had argued for evidence to be struck from the record, including that obtained from the seizure of their phones by the Spanish police.<\/p>\n
In his ruling,\u00a0seen by The Athletic, the judge declared such seizures \u201cdo not require the consent of the owners\u201d of the phones and added: \u201cAll the defendants made backups to their cloud account to delete contents before their arrests, in a clear attempt to thwart the investigation of the reported events.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid defender Raul Asencio has been fully acquitted in his trial over the alleged sharing of intimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,5853,301,82,83,1743,17],"class_list":["post-80222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-international-football","tag-la-liga","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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