Justice has ruled and the football player Santi-Mina will therefore spend several years in prison. A professional football player, the 26-year-old Spaniard currently plays for Celta Vigo, the club of his hometown. On September 7, 2021, the player was accused of sexual assault by a young woman for facts dating back to June 2017. At the time, he was arrested near Almeria, a coastal city, before being released without bail. . The young woman accuses Santi Mina of having burst into the room where she was with one of the footballer’s friends and of having “put his penis in his mouth”before “push her on the bed and introduce three fingers into her vagina”.
The Almeria court therefore took up the case and decided to find Santi Mina guilty. The court initially acquitted him of the offense of sexual assault for which he faced up to 8 years in prison, but he was ultimately convicted of the offense of sexual abuse and he finally receives 4 years in prison in that case. A sanction which is accompanied by a obligation to remain 500 meters from the victim for 12 years and pay him compensation of 50,000 euros. After hearing his sentence, the footballer decided to appeal, as informed by the Spanish daily La Cadena Ser.
The two players would have tried to bribe her
Santi Mina’s ex-teammate David Goldar was also named as his accomplice in this story during the first hearing. It was he who had consented relations with the young woman at first and as such, he was tried as an accomplice. The court eventually acquitted him of the offense of sexual assault. A rather incredible trial since, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer, the two footballers would have put pressure on his client, going so far as to offer him 400,000 euros for her to lie during her court hearing.
For its part, the player’s club, the Celta Vigoreacted in a press release published on Wednesday. “It has been decided to withdraw the player, temporarily, from training sessions of the first team, without prejudice to continuing to carry out the activities indicated by the club”in particular indicated the club, which therefore dismisses its player for the moment.