The spotlight on Raúl Asencio's case is now firmly on southern Gran Canaria. The Real Madrid defender faces the start of his trial in the courts of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after being definitively convicted last month of a traffic offense committed in the south of the island.
The traffic incident occurred in the early hours of August 16th. Officers stopped the footballer driving a Porsche during a routine traffic stop on the roads of southern Tenerife. The breathalyzer test revealed a blood alcohol content of 0,90 milligrams per liter of exhaled air, a reading that tripled the criminal limit of 0,60 milligrams and was almost four times the general legal limit.
The Court of First Instance processed the matter through a fast-track trial. Asencio admitted the facts and accepted a plea agreement that imposed a fine of four months at a rate of 120 euros per day—14.400 euros in total—and the withdrawal of his driving license for eight months.
The oral proceedings in the main trial begin this September in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The Real Madrid center-back will be in the dock alongside three former players from the club's youth academy: Ferrán Ruiz, Juan Rodríguez, and Andrés García. Criminal Court Number 5 is trying the case concerning events that took place in the summer of 2023 at a hotel in Amadores, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria.
The court order details that the defendants made backups on their Id Cloud accounts to delete the multimedia content before being arrested. The judge validated this digital seizure without consent and ratified the spontaneous confession made by Andrés García in his initial statement as a witness.
The prosecution is seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Raúl Asencio for two counts of violating privacy by sharing intimate material recorded without authorization. The Public Prosecutor's Office will drop the charges if the two young women involved ratify the notarized pardon previously granted to the defense during the trial.
The legal situation differs for the other defendants. Ferrán Ruiz, Juan Rodríguez, and Andrés García face requests for four years and seven months in prison for authoring the recordings and disseminating material that affected a minor, a type of crime where the victims' forgiveness does not extinguish criminal prosecution.
