In a statement, the club expressed its “surprise” at the player’s move and caused the striker to turn down an offer to play in another league.
Santi Mina returns to Celta’s discipline. The Vigo club has announced that the club is obliged “through a burofax” to “participate immediately in the team training” of the footballer, who was sentenced on May 4 to four years in prison for sexual abuse.
After knowing the penalty in May, the club decided to remove the striker “for the time being” and even eliminate any presence on the team’s website. At the beginning of the preseason, Santi Mina did not show up with the rest of the players for the discipline of the team, but now the situation has changed radically.
Celta, which has transferred that “reserves the right, if the penalty becomes final, to claim any damage caused to the entity by the player’s conduct, both economically and to the image of the club”, has assured that it will “mandatory” seems to take the player to the preparation sessions.
In the same statement, Celta expressed his “surprise” at the player’s move, which they say is aimed at “damage to the club, which has acted since the court ruling in accordance with the values of this club and its fans and those under will not resign under any circumstances”, pointing out that Mina “rejected an offer to play for a team in a different league”.
The footballer was sentenced to four years in prison last May for sexually abusing a woman on June 18, 2017 in Mojácar (Almería). The player, yes, got rid of the assault conviction. According to the verdict, Mina did not act with violence or intimidation, as the prosecutor has considered, to qualify the crime as sexual assault. Judge Társila Martínez and the court acquitted Mina for this type of crime for which the Public Prosecution Service demanded eight years in prison and the private prosecution demanded nine and a half.
The conviction of Santi Mina, in addition to four years in prison, a 500 meters restraining order against the victim for 12 years and the payment of damages of 50,000 euros. The Celta footballer’s defense announced that it would appeal the verdict, on the understanding that “significant errors in assessment” had been made by the court of the evidence collected during the trial. In a statement, he stated that the ruling of the third section “is not in accordance with the law” and does not correspond to “the events that have occurred”.
Source: La Verdad
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