Santi Mina and David Goldar, this Wednesday, at the Provincial Court of Almería. /
sexual assault
The second day of the hearing against the Celta player focuses the statements on the psychological and physical consequences of the complainant
The trial against Celta de Vigo footballer Santi Mina and David Goldar, UD Ibiza player, culminated this Wednesday the second of the three scheduled sessions, this time yes, in a public hearing after they remained behind closed doors this Monday the statements of the two defendants, the victim of the alleged sexual assault and her friends, witnesses of the events that would have occurred in Mojácar during the summer of 2017.
Agile but intense, during the approximately two hours that this day of the oral hearing has lasted, statements have been made by the rest of the witnesses called by the accusation and defense, among them, Civil Guard agents present on the night of the proceedings or private detectives hired by the legal representation of the defendants in order to observe “the behavior” of the alleged victim after the events. Some statements that have allowed to give some form to the different stories due to the impossibility of attending the interrogations of the first session.
Thus, according to the testimony of the agents of the Civil Guard, whose appearance has been as an expert witness (a “strange” figure, in the words of the president of the Tribune, the magistrate Társila Martínez, but accepted) the alleged aggression It would have taken place in a van, in which the young woman “voluntarily” had sexual relations with a man (namely, David Goldar) and where a second man (Mina, according to the victim’s account) sexually abused her without her consent. consent.
It was one of the women who accompanied the alleged victim on her trip to Mojácar who, one of the agents called this Wednesday to testify said, called the Civil Guard the night the alleged attack took place to denounce that “there was a friend who did not appear».
After that, they found the van, outside of which they found the two defendants, “on the one hand” and the victim and a friend of hers, “on the other hand.” The Local Police had already appeared at the scene, to whom the incident was reported.
Regarding what happened inside the van, which the defense of Santi Mina -represented by Fátima Magdalena Rodríguez- defines as “consensual relationships”, the forensic doctor who attended the complainant the day after the alleged attack has confirmed that the injuries presented by the alleged victim (genital and extragenital) “are compatible” with the reported facts.
A point in which the Celta de Vigo footballer’s lawyer has tried to link the injuries described with “an intense sexual relationship”, a version that has not been corroborated by the specialist given the impossibility of specifying said statement.
“A normal life”
One of the key points of the day this Wednesday, on the other hand, has been the statement as a witness of a private detective hired by Mina’s defense, who finally renounced the testimony of another professional in this field cited.
The objective, he explained, was to determine if the victim was leading “a normal life”, as opposed to the results presented in the different psychological reports to which the complainant has been subjected in recent years, in which it is stated that she had modified their behavior and even their way of dressing. As she has clarified, the surveillance took place in 2019, two years after the reported attack.
A practice about which it was insinuated that “it could invade the privacy” of the complainant, to which the private detective has stated that “at no time has this happened” given that “99% of the observations have been made on the street” while «the other 1% have been in a public space or in a work space and another is from a detective who has had a very brief and cordial conversation with her, pretending to look for a rental apartment».
However, during the presentation of the expert evidence, the psychological consequences that the victim presented two years after the events were considered compatible with the victim’s version, the psychologist of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Almería responsible for preparing the requested report during instruction.
“The post-traumatic stress test reveals that there is, since more than six months have passed and she presents alterations, anxiety, depression, reactivation behaviors when there is something that refers to what she says she has experienced,” one of the women pointed out in the room. two specialists cited, who attended her in person in Almería in 2019. Before, as specified, she had gone to the Balearic Institute of Dona since then she had already moved to work in Ibiza, although, when the aggression would have occurred, He lived in another part of the country.
