Raul Asencio alleged to have solicited video shot by Real Madrid team-mates
The footage depicted sexual encounter with youth team-mates, woman and girl
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By DAVID KENT
Published: 15:24 EDT, 5 June 2025 | Updated: 15:24 EDT, 5 June 2025
Raul Asencio has split with his lawyer as the Real Madrid defender fights to prove he is innocent of soliciting a sex video which allegedly included a minor.
Asencio, 22, is accused of distributing footage involving a girl, who was 16 at the time it was filmed, and doing so knowing she did not give her permission for it to be taken.
The centre-back has a rising status in the game and started both Champions League semi-final legs against Arsenal after becoming a first-team regular this season.
The video was allegedly filmed by former youth team-mates Ferran Ruiz, 22, Andres Garcia, 22, and Juan Rodriguez, 23, in June 2023, involving the girl and another who was 18 at the time.
The three footballers are accused of 'disclosure of secrets without consent, and violation of privacy, distributing and sending videos to third parties without consent, capturing and using minors for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography'.
Asencio and the three other players were arrested at Real Madrid's training centre in September 2023 following a complaint lodged by the mother of the 16-year-old girl who allegedly appears in the video.
Raul Asencio has been accused of soliciting and distributing a sexual video involving a minor
Real Madrid defender Asencio and his girlfriend, Spanish influencer Selenia Suarez
Asencio has decided to ditch his lawyer and use a member of Real Madrid's in-house team
Article 197 of Spain's Criminal Code states that any individual convicted of recording and sharing an explicit video of a minor will face between three-and-a-half and five years in prison.
This would drop to a two-and-a-half to four-year prison sentence if found guilty of non-consensual recording.
If Asencio is culpable of only sharing the video the sentence would be expected to be less severe.
Asencio was being representated by Juango Ospina, a high-profile, Harvard-trained lawyer based in Madrid.
However, he will now be defended by Alfonso Morales Camprubi who is part of Real Madrid's in-house legal team.
Morales Camprubi was part of Real's legal team for the trial that saw three men each receive eight-month prison sentences for making racist remarks and gestures toward Vinícius Jr at a La Liga match against Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium in May 2023.
Following his arrest in 2023, Asencio tried to have his part in the case dismissed in February by appealing to end the investigation into his alleged role, however a judge decided to uphold the decision to move ahead with the inquiry.
The judge at the Gran Canaria High Court said there was enough evidence to support allegations of violation of privacy, distribution of videos to third parties without the victims' knowledge or consent, solicitation of a minor for pornographic purposes and possession of child pornography.
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Quiero reiterar, una vez más, mi absoluto respeto por los derechos a la libertad sexual y a la intimidad de todas las mujeres.
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— REAL MADRID FANS ð¤ (@AdriRM33) May 15, 2025
Asencio and the three other players were arrested at Real Madrid's training centre in 2023
Last month, Asencio released a length statement maintaining his innocence.
'I have not participated in any behaviour that violates the sexual freedom of any woman, much less minors,' the statement read.
'I would like to reiterate, once again, my absolute respect for the rights to sexual freedom and privacy of all women.'
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