The Criminal Court Number 1 of Orense has acquitted Real Zaragoza goalkeeper

Álvaro Ratón

of all charges for the alleged sexual assault after the trial held last October.

In the sentence, Álvaro Ratón is acquitted of the crimes of sexual assault and injuries and annuls the prohibition that he approaches less than 200 meters from the victim or communicates with her, in addition to the return of the 24,000 euros that they had been posted as bail.

Ratón was facing, according to the request of the Prosecutor's Office, a sentence of two years in prison and 10,000 euros of compensation for the victim, in addition to being prohibited from approaching it for five years.

Meanwhile, the private prosecution asked the player for four years in prison and compensation of approximately 20,000 euros.

The case was initiated by the complaint filed against Ratón by PB, a woman from the town of Carballino, where he is the goalkeeper, who accused him of

an alleged assault on the night of June 23, 2018 in a bar,

in the neighborhood of Flores of this population.

Ratón went to testify voluntarily on July 2, 2018 to the Civil Guard of the Orense town after the agents appeared on June 29 at his home in Carballino.

In the following months, the judge took statements from the prosecution's witnesses, who were peripheral, that is, not in person, since none claimed to have seen the attack and did not even corroborate the version of the complainant, entering into contradictions.

The fact that

the complaint and the medical report were presented and carried out six days after the events, on June 29

, means that the damage, in the form of bruises, that the complainant alleged cannot be firmly established if they were as a result of that incident or subsequent events.

According to the version of the complainant, the alleged aggressor and the victim met the day before the events at a wedding.

At the bar, Ratón invited the woman to have a drink with him, something to which she refused.

His reaction was, according to the prosecution, to shake her.

Later, the footballer tried to kiss her and forcefully touch her.

It was then that the woman resisted and, supposedly, Mouse pushed her against some stairs.

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