The public, popular and private accusations of the so-called Arandina Case have advanced this Wednesday that in their briefs of conclusions, which will be formalized on Thursday, they will ratify the allegations of sexual assault and collaboration against three former Arandina players .

The three accusations will also support the same request for punishment that they initially raised, 39 years for two of the defendants and forty for the third in the case of the prosecutor; 43 years and eight months for each one of the popular action, which is exercised by the Clara Campoamor Association , and 43 and a half years for each by the private prosecution.

The lawyer of the popular accusation, Luis Antonio Calvo , has told reporters the maintenance of the request for these sentences. The lawyer has made these statements after the fifth session of the oral hearing that takes place behind closed doors at the Audience of Burgos, where 24-year-old Carlos Cuadrado, Lucho, sits on the bench; Víctor Rodríguez, Viti, 22, and Raúl Calvo, 19, since last Thursday.

On the other hand, sources of the defendants' defenses have advanced that they will maintain as a fundamental position the petition for free acquittal , although they will introduce an alternative so that in the event that they are condemned they will be exempted, but they have not specified which.

In fact, Rafael Uriarte , lawyer defender of Víctor Rodríguez, Viti, has considered that both the testimonies of the last days and the expert evidence of today support his thesis that nothing happened with the minor on the floor of the soccer players in Aranda de Duero on November 24, 2017.

Regarding the testimony of the psychopedagogue, who was the first adult to whom the minor told that they had sexually abused her, Uriarte has assured that she has not clarified the relationship she has with the family or why she did not come to report immediately what the Girl had told him.

For his part, Olga Navarro , a defense lawyer for another of the defendants, Raúl Calvo, stressed that the expert reports indicate that his defendant has a maturity very similar to that of the girl , while the other two former soccer players have a mental age and maturity typical of an adult, although in the case of 'Lucho', 24, is closer to the maturity of a young man of about 18 or 20 years.

During the fifth session of the oral hearing, held this Wednesday, they have finally declared a witness and nine experts, once the parties have resigned to four other experts who were also summoned for this day.

In the last session of the oral hearing, scheduled for tomorrow, the conclusions with the qualification and the request of penalties of each party will be presented in writing before the lawyers issue the reports with their versions of what they have given if the hearing oral.

Before the end of the hearing, the three defendants will have the opportunity of one last turn of speech if they wish.

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