Former Celta Vigo captain Hugo Mallo has had his attraction in opposition to a sexual assault conviction rejected, for incident with the Espanyol mascot again in 2019. Mallo will probably be compelled to pay monetary penalties because of this.
Mallo was accused of sexual assault by Espanyol mascot Carme Coma in 2023, and regardless of pleading harmless, . He had appealed the incident, having been ordered to pay a superb of €7k, damages of €1k to the sufferer and her authorized bills.
Mallo conviction confirmed
As reported by on Thursday, Mallo has been ordered to pay the above fines within the subsequent ten days. It’s the fruits of a course of that has taken six years since Coma first reported the incident again in 2019. The 34-year-old had a protracted profession at Celta earlier than shifting Internacional in Brazil in 2023, after which Aris Salonika in Greece in 2024. He has been a free agent since being launched this previous summer time.
Coma: “I don’t need an apology, I simply need justice”
The sufferer, who final 12 months spoke on the incident publicly, , or that it was not a critical matter.
“I’m calm, glad, and at peace. I’ve been ready for this second since 2019, and that is closing the door on an notorious episode with the ending it needed to have, as a criminal offense must be,” she advised Onda Cero, as reported by .
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“I bear in mind these three disgusting seconds so vividly, that audacity of doing it in entrance of the stadium, with that smile. I at all times suppose that if this had occurred to me once I was 18, I’d have carried it with me for the remainder of my life, however at over 40, as a grown girl, no.”
Coma reiterated that she merely needed it to be sentenced as a criminal offense, sending a message to offenders and attacking the tradition of sexual violence in opposition to ladies.
“I don’t need him to apologise; I don’t know him. All I needed was for justice to be served and for it to be verified that he had dedicated a criminal offense in opposition to me. That individual made me really feel susceptible, harassed, and damage. The individuals who commit these crimes must know that they’ll carry a sentence for all times.”
