Accused of sexual assault and released on bail on Wednesday after two days in custody, Rafa Mir spoke his first words since the start of the case. “I’m fine,” said the 27-year-old as he left the Lliria courthouse on Wednesday.
“Everything went well. I will speak when the time comes, you know I have no problem speaking,” he then assured a few seconds before returning home, in comments reported by La Sexta. The Valencia FC footballer was released with precautionary measures by the Spanish justice system and allowed to return home, as was his Chilean friend Pablo Jara (30 years old), also a footballer and the target of similar accusations.
The two men are accused of sexual assault by two young women, aged 21 and 25. They had gone to Rafa Mir’s home, north of Valencia, on the evening of Saturday to Sunday, after a night out at a nightclub.
The player assures that the relationship was consensual
The 21-year-old woman accusing Mir claimed that the player locked her in the bathroom and penetrated her. Citing the indictment report to which it had access, the media outlet El Mundo reported that the attacker made her sit over a sink and “started to insert his fingers into her vagina without taking off her skirt” while she begged him to “let her go because her father was coming to get her”. The other 25-year-old woman accused the other inmate of assaulting and injuring her.
The Valencian’s lawyer, Jaime Campaner, assures that the sexual relations between his client and the young woman were consensual, “without a doubt”. Something that the interested party denies. The president of the Court of Instruction 8 of Lliria, in the province of Valencia, released him provisionally after neither party requested pre-trial detention.
The precautionary measures imposed on the two men include the withdrawal of their passports and a ban on leaving the country, a 500-metre restraining order on the plaintiffs and a ban on contacting them, as well as an obligation to report to court every week.
- RMC Sport
