“I didn’t touch her or hit her. They’re putting on a show.”

“They put on a show“, said Pablo Jara in his statement to the Instruction Court number 8 of Llíria, where he arrived this Wednesday, as a detainee of the Civil Guard, like his friend Rafa Mir. The two footballers had to answer for the party that took place in the house belonging to the striker of the team in the exclusive urbanization Tour to Conil de Bétera.

There he ended his party. Pablo, as a member of the first circle friends that Rafa Mir maintains in the Murcian neighborhood of Javalí Nuevo where the Valencia player spent part of his childhood. In fact, according to a close friend of the footballer, the contacts are so fluid between the gang that the striker invited Pablo Jara, along with two other friends, including a member of the security forces, to attend the match at Mestalla that his team was playing against Villarreal.

The match ended in a draw and Rafa Mir only played 21 minutes, but that did not discourage him from going out with two of those three friends: defender Pablo Jara and a third who has now become a witness in a case that is shaking the foundations of the football world. The trio went to party at the Mya nightclub: a famous room in the capital of Turia, marked by its futuristic decoration, where footballers, actors, influencers and singers to enjoy their cocktails and space VIP.

“We met them in a discotheque“, as confirmed by Pablo Jara (Murcia, 1997), on the relationship he had with both the 25-year-old woman, who reported him for alleged touching and punching, and with the 21-year-old girl, who reported Rafa Mir to the sender. (Cartagena, 1997) for an alleged sexual assault with penetration.

The 27-year-old defender, characterized by his build and thick beard, also claims that the two girls “voluntarily” agreed to accompany them to Rafa Mir’s chalet, to continue the party that began on Saturday, August 31 and continued on Sunday, September 1. Pablo explains that upon arriving at the chalet in the Torre e urbanizationn Conil were “jokes” with the two girls those they met hours before.

“We went to the pool”According to Pablo Jara, in his statement to the court, that his lawyer, Gabriel Esturillo, informed EL ESPAÑOL, to prove the innocence of his client. The party was going well until Pablo claims that an alleged episode of jealousy occurred between the two girls, because they were with the attacker: “They fought.” “They had two or three arguments about being with Rafa.”

Pablo admits that he was swimming in the pool after a long night of drinking, but denies the version of events put forward by the 25-year-old girlwho denounces him for insistently touching her buttocks and breasts -without her consent-. All this, showing violent behavior, which forced the girl to get out of the water, being chased, even insulted and attacked by the defender until he chased her out of Rafa Mir’s house in her panties, with her friend, who was also in her underwear.

Such sexual behavior and violent attitude are denied by the central defender who only admits to having thrown the two girls out of the chalet. The proof is that this twenty-year-old claims that they were causing a scandal in the neighborhood because of their disputes between them, motivated by their alleged jealousy of being with the footballer Rafa Mir: “During one of their discussions, I told them that they had to leave the housethat everything was fine, that they were disturbing…” “I didn’t touch her or hit her.” “They’re putting on a show.”

Gabriel Esturillo, Pablo Jara’s lawyer, corroborates the content of the version proposed by his client in court and published by this newspaper: “Pablo denies the facts presented by the complainant to the Civil Guard. My client says it’s a lie that he touched her ass and breasts. “There was nothing sexual, consensual or non-consensual.”

The lawyer from the firm Hernández y Esturillo Abogados, based in Alcantarilla, supports his statements with objective data: Neither the lawyers of the two plaintiffs nor the public prosecutor requested pre-trial detention. for defender Pablo Jara. They did not do so for striker Rafa Mir either. That is to say, the Prosecutor’s Office considers that the requirements of Article 505 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are not met: it does not appreciate the risk of the footballers under investigation fleeing or the possibility that they will alter the evidence related to the case under investigation.

-And the attack to throw her and her friend out of the house of Valencia CF footballer Rafa Mir?

-Gabriel Esturillo: He did not hit the complainant. He told the two girls that they had to leave, in a loud tone [de voz]but without resorting to violence [física]. My client accompanied them to the door of the chalet and evicted them.

Defender Pablo Jara grew up in the Murcian neighborhood of Javalí Nuevo where he met his friend Rafa Mir. Even the neighbors say that “they played on the same team when they were kids.”. This is where their great friendship was born, even if their sporting lives took opposite paths because Rafa arrived in professional football and He won a silver medal with Spain at the Tokyo Olympics, while Pablo’s greatest achievement was becoming captain of Alcantarilla FC, where he played for nine years until this season he found himself without a club.

Likely, After this scandal, no one wants to recruit the central defender who had shown so much promise when he made his debut at just 17 years old. with Ciudad de Murcia: a legendary Third Division team. Pablo went from being the hero of the rise of the Alcantarilla football club to the villain of an -alleged- sexual assault.