A well-known footballer from Gran Canaria faces an anxious wait to learn if an agreement proposed by his club’s lawyer will see him charged with a lesser offence relating to a controversial sex video.
Real Madrid defender Raul Ascencio is one of four players facing trial over the unconsented filming of a sex session with two females, one of them aged just 16, during partying in a reserved spot at a Gran Canaria beach club in June 2023, when they were part of the Spanish giants’ youth set up.
Ascencio, the best-known of the quartet, has since broken into the first team and has even been called up by Spain. The centre-back has always maintained that he took no part in the sex with the girls but has apparently admitted receiving and sharing the video footage taken by his colleagues.
Real Madrid’s lawyers have been negotiating with the families of the girls, who have brought their own criminal proceedings in parallel to the state prosecution, in a bid for Ascencio’s involvement to be considered separately to the actions of his team-mates and for him to face lesser charges which would result in a fine not prison.
Although details of an agreement said to have been reached with the two victims of the pornographic video were published yesterday by Spanish media, it has now emerged that Spain’s public prosecution service has not approved the more lenient charges and has not changed its view on Ascencio’s role in violating the privacy of the girls and, more seriously, distributing child pornography (as one of the girls was under age). If convicted, the players could face up to four years in jail.
