Footballer Hugo Mallo has been ordered to pay a fine of 6,000 euros for touching a woman who, at the time of the incident, was wearing the clothes of the opposing team’s mascot before the start of a football match in Cornellà. This was decided this Thursday by Barcelona Criminal Court No. 19 when it considered that the former Celta player had committed a crime. sexual abuse.
The events date back to April 24, 2019 while a football match between Espanyol and Celta de Vigo was about to take place in the municipality of Barcelona. Moments before the initial whistle, on the same pitch, the footballer approached the pair of pets, a parakeet and a parakeet. He shook hands with the first, while with the second, the athlete “put his hands under the costume and touched her breasts”, the victim stated in the complaint she filed the following day with the Mossos d’Esquadra.
In fact, in the judgment it is proven that “with the intention of satisfy their libidinous mood and harm sexual integrity Likewise, he put his hands under her costume and touched her breasts”, to which the victim was “forced to step back and push the accused away with her right hand”.
On the other hand, the former Celta captain, who was on provisional release, will have to compensate the victim up to 1,000 euros plus legal interest for the moral damage caused.
