Overview
- A Las Palmas court acquitted Raúl Asencio on Thursday after prosecutors withdrew the charge that he showed an explicit 2023 video to a third party when the two women in the footage formally forgave the defendants.
- Separate criminal proceedings in August ended in a fast‑track conviction for Asencio after he failed breath tests on Aug. 16 and accepted a €14,400 fine and an eight‑month driving ban.
- Real Madrid opened an extraordinary disciplinary file after the DUI, with coach José Mourinho confirming the club is investigating potential sanctions under the LaLiga‑AFE rules.
- Three former Real Madrid youth teammates — Ferrán Ruiz, Andrés García and Juan Rodríguez — received one‑year suspended prison terms, two‑year restraining orders and three‑year bans on working with minors for recording and distributing the footage.
- Under Spanish law some privacy offences can be dropped if victims forgive the accused while offences linked to recording or distributing sexual images of a minor cannot be extinguished by pardon, a distinction that shaped these divergent outcomes and will shape club and career consequences for those involved.