Overview
- Prosecutor Mauro Perassi advanced the reopened case by formally accusing six first‑team players of aggravated simple sexual abuse and notifying others named in the file.
- The 19‑year‑old complainant, who was 16 at the time, described on TV being blindfolded, forced to shout “goal,” having a sausage pushed into her mouth, a blood sausage placed in her underwear, and being filmed.
- The investigation had been archived in June 2025 by fiscal María de las Mercedes Moya, then revived on appeal when Judge Diego Flamant ordered deeper inquiry under a different prosecutor.
- The offense cited by the Sexual Crimes Prosecutor’s Office carries a possible three to ten years in prison under Article 119, and defense lawyers say they will seek to nullify the case for lack of specific acts tied to each accused.
- Club Alemán says it banned welcome rituals and alerted authorities after the complaint, while the accused continue training without detention orders as courts impose a no‑contact rule and forensic evaluations and families of some players call the ritual a “game.”