Overview
- Asencio is due to appear next Thursday at the San Bartolomé de Tirajana court in Gran Canaria to answer a charge of showing an explicit video that included a minor.
- The public prosecutor has asked for two years, six months and one day in prison, while saying the case concerns a semi-public privacy offence rather than filming or appearing in the footage.
- Spanish law allows criminal liability for semi-public privacy offences to be dropped if the victims formally accept an apology and prosecutors then withdraw the charge.
- Three former Real Madrid academy teammates — Ferran Ruiz, Andrés García and Juan Rodríguez — face separate allegations of distributing the material that are treated as child‑pornography matters and cannot be resolved by a victims' pardon.
- Recent reports say Asencio was convicted of drink-driving in mid‑August and fined with an eight‑month driving ban, and he is also reported to be recovering from physical problems and taking a break from football, raising questions about his near-term playing future.