• Football: Sandro Rosell puts the State in check: he requests compensation of 29 million euros

Something has not changed in Sandro Rosell : he always embraces. The pandemic does not defeat the instinct of a close character, without filters for good and bad. Quite the contrary, and is that the former president of Barcelona returns, at 56, from an incomparable confinement, two years practically in preventive detention for accusations of economic crimes, in relation to the services provided to the Brazilian Football Confederation , from those who were acquitted. The court cases, however, are not over for Rosell, with pending processes, but also with its own counterattack against the State in the form of complaints and demands. The former leader does not forget, neither those who kept him in prison wrongly, nor those who helped him. He has a Sicilian sense of loyalty. The proof is the relationship with Soto del Real's chaplain , Father Paulino Alonso , key in the emotional assistance offered to Rosell and Rodrigo Rato, among other inmates. To Paulino he will donate all the copyrights of the book edited by Plaza & Janés that tells of his time in prison and that could not have another name: Un abrazo hug.

Is the man who comes out of prison the same Sandro Rosell? The prison magnifies everything, also the characteristics of people. If it was bad before, now I'm more bad. If it was good, then more good. When the module's PA system heard "so-and-so, freedom!" We all stood up to applaud. But if someone slipped into the phone line, the situation ended in cakes. the emotional situation makes everything take to the extreme. Once outside, I think I am the same. Every experience, hard as it may be, leaves something positive. I learned from an underworld that I did not know. I rediscovered my own spirituality and met people like Paulino. It is wonderful that there are people like him in society. In prison you have plenty of what you lack, time, and this allows you to reflect on your life. If you do it without jail beating you, it is positive. If jail beats you, you're dead. Have you found the reason for your prolonged pre-trial detention, a record in Spain? No, but I don't throw in the towel. I want to know why and who put me in. Who? That is the usual question among celebrities who were in the module. Not why you're here, but who put you here. Do you know? I have a hypothesis and I'm looking for evidence. For this reason, I have filed a complaint with Judge Carmen Lamela. The Office of the Prosecutor, for now, has been contrary to prevarication. My lawyers believe that the Office of the Prosecutor acts in this case as a defense attorney, not as a prosecutor. But in his writing there is an implicit acknowledgment of the fact, although he excuses the judge because he was very busy, he says. Justice is corporatist. It also asks in another lawsuit for compensation of 29 million euros to the State. In other cases, 25 euros a day have been paid to prisoners in preventive detention by mistake, which is ridiculous. With this lawsuit I don't want money for myself. If I recover the cost of my defense, I will donate the rest to charities. What I am trying to achieve is for the State to recognize the failure of the system, because here you are not innocent until proven otherwise, it is not true. I was accused by the Prosecutor's Office ex officio, so I had to prove my guilt but did not. It was I who had to prove my innocence. Despite doing so, they kept me locked up for two years, with whom did he coincide in prison with the children of Pujol, Jordi and Oriol, in Soto and Can Brians, respectively. With Ignacio González, Díaz Ferrán, Rato, Bárcenas, López Viejo, Junqueras, Turrull, los Jordis and all the politicians imprisoned by the procés. In the last time, before the trial, in Soto, we were 12 of the 90 inmates of the module. When they went out to the patio, they used to say: "Let's go to the news!" Who did you have the best relationship with? With Jordi Cuixart, it is with one of the ones I stayed the longest, along with Díaz Ferrán or Ignacio González. group with the rest of the inmates was good? Very good. People believe that celebrities in prison have privileges. On the contrary, zero. Prison equals you. Manolo, our module manager, marked on a table when you were going to collect, scrub or any other task and that involved everyone: Rato, Cuixart, Junqueras or myself ... All in the same showers, all with the same sheets. The rights to his book will be administered by Father Paulino to pay for the defense of the innocent without a lawyer, according to his instructions. Don't you trust public prosecutors? They haven't convinced me at all and I'm sure some of them take it seriously, but not the ones I've known. I have seen dramatic situations of homeless boys. You relate in your book a very rough situation, when you say that during the search prior to your arrest, at your home, the police seized money that was not in your closet before. I keep cash at home in a small safe, like a hotel one. In the morning, that money was not there. They were, in addition, correlative bills. As they come out of the Casa de la Moneda y Timbre. Literally, they were impeccable. Did soccer personalities take an interest in you when you were in prison? Some. For example? Florentino Pérez, although through a mutual friend, they called him inside, lovingly. If he had not been president of Barça, I am sure he would not have entered. Before I was, I didn't have a single tax inspection. Since then, 73 performances, several while in prison. Could it have influenced the delicate political moment in Catalonia? Perhaps, but it was not fundamental. I have decided to be an actor in football and the company, but in politics I am a spectator. He has said that he is only an independentist at heart. Have you felt comfortable in your relationship with Spain? Yes, always, but it bothers me that you have gone from loving the Catalans to going for them! Something has been done wrong on both sides. Should Barça be positioned politically? No. It must depart from politics, although not from Catalanism. But there are political and media powers that want to take over the club, and they are always activated before the electoral horizon [next year]. Bartomeu, whom you endorsed to continue as president, has had a busy year: change of coach, 'Barçagate' ... too moved. Above the errors or successes, it has to do with what I have told you. Will you position yourself before the electoral appointment? Of course. I want to influence against those powers. I care about Barça and I am a former president. Why would I not do it? Does that position have anything to do with the controversy on TV3 following a documentary about you? I don't know. From what the works council said, a part that alluded to a Mediapro pact with the American authorities was cut after a bribery attempt to buy rights in America. The director did not want to sign him. Jaume Roures has been very critical of you. What is your opinion about the entrepreneur? How have you seen Barça in this league? Something went wrong in the psychological aspect during the confinement, I think he has not been able to interpret it. Football is technical, physical and tactical, but also psychological, and in that aspect there has been a downturn. Could it have had to do with the team's susceptibilities to Quique Setién or his assistant? I'm not close enough to know that. Messi is very critical. Is there a risk that he will leave? In my opinion, the partner can rest easy. I think he will hang his boots at Barça. Can Barça bear the global cost of keeping the Argentine, above 100 million euros a year? He is a player who costs a lot but also generates a lot of income, in addition to what he gives in the field. Would you bring Neymar again? Yes, because I always want the best, but with two contracts: one for sports and the other for conduct. Today it would only be possible with barter, but I think that none of the possible candidates wants to leave. Win or lose, it's Barça.

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