The Leo Messi Foundation -whose offices are in Catalonia and its visible face is the captain of Barcelona and the Argentine team- obtained a landmark ruling in a lawsuit against the newspaper ABC, your former director Bieito Rubido and the journalist Javier Chicote, for falsely accusing the charitable NGO of committing alleged irregularities with their accounts.
“The sentence is important. The justice sentenced the three of them for slander and insults ”, They entrusted him from the Argentine player’s environment to Infobae. “The lies came out in Spain by this right-wing and monarchical newspaper and were repeated in various media in Argentina that consulted the authors of the defamations as if they were true“, Summed up the same confidant Messi’s inner circle.
In one of the extracts from the ruling, it is stated that “The information published is neither true nor true, being accompanied by headlines, entries, and expressions that, based on previous judicial processes, suggest to the reader the possible commission of a tax fraud by the Foundation that bears the name of the actor ”. In this opinion, the media and the journalist were reproached for their actions in the article since “It does not conform to reality and hurts his honor.”
The Court of First Instance No. 8 of Gavà ruled that each of them must pay 7,142.10 euros to the Leo Messi Foundation, in addition to the costs derived from the lawsuit, for moral damages caused to the soccer player born in Rosario. The inner circle of the flea He warned that this money will be allocated to the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona.
This resolution gained even more significance because it also denies a series of articles published by the same journalist, who argued that there were “irregularities in the management” of the Leo Messi Foundation. “He went out everywhere to lie and they consulted him as if it were all true”, The source consulted was outraged.
However, from the inner circle of the footballer they warned this medium that they are evaluating initiating more legal actions in the coming weeks, since “There are more powerful behind” of these maneuvers. “We will not release their identities yet, but there are more very powerful people behind“They added. Among those involved would be a person who posed as an employee of the renowned NGO and another who tried to extort money from them.
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This non-profit organization was born in 2007 and is dedicated to the development of solidarity actions and social commitment, both in the Argentine Republic and in the world. It has three fundamental pillars: health, education and sport. “Our Mission is to act in favor of children and adolescents at risk at national and international level, in partnership with other institutions that develop projects aligned with the fundamental ideals of the Foundation: health, education and sport.”, They report from the official website of the Foundation.
“One day, after a visit to a hospital, I understood the special dimension of a public figure. I understood that for these sick children the presence of a well-known footballer can be of great help. You are there and you get them to give you your smile and for them it is a special joy because they want to keep fighting more, because they really believe that they will overcome the disease and that they will pursue their dreams. I achieved my dream of becoming a footballer and I want you to know that I fought a lot to get there and I have to fight even harder to stay. I want to take advantage of that effort and that success to help the children who need it most, because I have chosen it that way, because I am moved every day that I get a child to smile, when they think there is hope, when I see that they feel happy. That is why we decided to create the Leo Messi Foundation. And I will continue fighting to make children happy with the same strength and dedication that I need to continue being a footballer ”, Lionel Messi recognized in 2010.
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