The investigation into sexual abuse allegedly committed by Mario Lopezformer national U-16, U-18 and U-19 women’s coach, has unleashed an earthquake in Spanish basketball.
The Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) opened an investigation file and issued precautionary measures, including the prohibition of issuing a license, against the coach accused of alleged sexual abuse of a player, facts that the organization “condemns without palliatives.”
As published this Sunday The countrywho was coach and responsible for internal and sports management of the Loint Gernikawas reported for subjecting an underage player to abuse for three years, events that began in 1998. At that time, López was 31 years old and the alleged victim was 13.
The proceedings report “sexual relations with penetration, such as fellatio, as well as masturbation, as well as a sexual relationship consisting of anal penetration.” All of this, the complaint states, within “a context of superiority of the investigated person with respect to the victim by reason of age and position and including acts of physical violence”.
“Given the information published today by the newspaper El País about alleged sexual abuse committed in the field of our sport, the Spanish Basketball Federation wants to express its strongest condemnation,” the FEB said in a statement this Sunday.
“The FEB only had partial knowledge of this matter from a complaint against the club received on October 29 of this same year. This complaint alludes to the fact that, presumably, there is a judicial procedure underway for alleged sexual abuse. Despite not having any notification of any kind in this regard, the Federation immediately initiated an investigation file and notified the complainant, the accused (the club), the Autonomous Federation of the Basque Country, the Higher Sports Council and FIBA. “, indicates the note.
The Federation adds that “while the file is being substantiated, the Advisory Committee against Sexual Violence of the FEB issued precautionary measures that prevent the issuance of any type of license to the person involved in the competitions organized by the Federation until there is a ruling. firm on these facts.” He has also asked the Fiba that these precautionary measures “extend internationally.”
According to The countrythe complaint was filed in June of last year, 21 years after the events, in the courts of Guernsey “Now, after an investigation process slowed down for various reasons, he is awaiting the indictment order,” the newspaper indicates.
The FEB emphasizes that “this person does not have a federative license issued by the FEB, nor does he have any other professional relationship with the Federation.”
“The commitment of the FEB is the complete eradication of this type of behavior, which it considers unacceptable and against which it has a Protocol and a Protection Delegate since 2014. The Federation’s policies in this field are very active and seek increase surveillance mechanisms to try to ensure that no action of this type occurs in Spanish basketball,” he points out.
Gernika disengages
He Gernika KESB has assured that, after having “today a resolution from the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) on an open judicial procedure regarding a person linked to the club”, it has “disassociated itself from the person under investigation.”
The former coach and head of internal and sports management at Lointek Gernika, Mario López, was denounced for subjecting an underage player to abuse for three years, events that began in 1998.
2023-12-18 02:28:11
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