The Prosecutor's Office requests 9 years in prison for footballer Álvaro Aguado for sexual assault

BarcelonaThe Prosecutor's Office has requested a nine-year prison sentence for former RCD Espanyol player Álvaro Aguado for allegedly sexually assaulting a club employee in a nightclub restroom in 2024. The prosecutor has also requested that the footballer compensate the victim with 65,000 euros for the moral damage and psychological sequelae caused by the sexual assault.

According to the indictment cited by Efe, the 28-year-old footballer assaulted the employee in the early hours of June 24 in the restroom of the Opium nightclub in Barcelona, even though the victim, who was in a "state of shock," asked him to "stop" and told him that she "did not want to have sexual relations."