The trial for the aggression of a Guillén Lafuerza player on a football referee in a First Regional match held last Sunday in Oviedo was seen this morning for sentencing in the courts of the Asturian capital. Gabriel Isaías Alegre, 24, admitted the attack and apologized to the referee Álvaro González. The prosecution requests his guilt for a minor offense of injuries, asks for 480 euros of compensation, a three-month fine with a fee of 10 euros a day and that Be Alegre takes charge of the medical expenses. The Prosecutor’s Office requests the same, although it only asks for a one-month fine of eight euros a day.
The aggressor’s lawyer, Sonia de La Paz Fernández, said that her client admitted the facts, although she asked that the daily quota of the fine be reduced to six euros for a month. Gabriel Isaías Alegre used his turn to speak to apologize to the referee, sitting a few meters away. “I want to apologize, because he is not to blame for anything.”
The attacked, Álvaro González, accompanied by Marcos Santurio, president of the Asturias Referees Committee, was assisted by the lawyer Constantino Vaquero and declared that he received “a punch in the jaw and in the left ear.” The referee said that it was all very fast and that he could not even identify the aggressor. “At one point I saw a fist hitting me and when I opened my eyes on the ground they were surrounding me. I did not see the person who did it, ”said the referee, who had to go to HUCA after the blow and went to the hospital yesterday to review the damage.
One of González’s assistants, Iván Rodríguez, testified as a witness. “I was about two meters away. He (the attacker) came running from about ten meters and punched him from behind. (The referee) was shocked for five minutes on the ground and I asked them to call the Police ”. Rodríguez identified Alegre as the aggressor.
The defendant had previously admitted the assault, but denied that it was a punch and also that he had been struck from behind. “It was with an open hand, it was not a punch and his back was not turned,” Alegre said. To questions from the lawyers, he assured that he did not know the referee at all and that in the years he has been playing football he had never had any similar problem. The trial was awaited for sentencing, which will be known this Thursday, and the defendant is now open a long administrative immigration process after the attack. The worst that could happen is to be expelled from the country, something that his lawyer hopes to lower. After the trial, Alegre had to go with two agents to begin the procedures of said process.
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