Overview
- A provincial court in Valencia found Rafa Mir guilty of sexual assault and injuries and sentenced him to seven years for the assault plus one year and six months for injuries, totaling eight years and six months.
- The judgment requires Mir to stay at least 500 meters from the complainant for ten years and orders him to pay €64,000 in damages, split into €14,000 for physical harm and €50,000 for moral harm.
- Teammate Pablo Jara was also convicted in the same case and received two years for sexual assault plus six months for an offense against moral integrity, together with indemnities and a five-year restraining order.
- Mir's defense denies criminal conduct, maintains the encounters were consensual and points to early police records they say did not note a sexual offense, and the legal team is expected to appeal the first-instance ruling.
- If the convictions are upheld on appeal, the punishments could remove the players from competition and affect transfer negotiations and club decisions while higher courts review the case.