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Saül Gordillo Admits Second Sexual Assault, Accepts 18-Month Sentence in Plea Deal

The agreement awaits court approval, which could suspend the custodial term.

Overview

  • The former Catalunya Ràdio director reached a pact with the Barcelona prosecutor and the victim that avoids a trial and formalizes his admission of the 2022 assault on an El Principal reporter.
  • Prosecutors had initially sought four years in prison and six years of supervised liberty before the parties negotiated the 18‑month term.
  • The agreement includes €30,000 in compensation, two years of supervised liberty, a restraining order, and a four‑year ban on working with minors.
  • According to the filed account, after the company event at Sala Apolo he drove the journalist toward her home in Badalona and performed oral sex in his car without consent, with the victim showing alcohol effects and later testing positive for benzodiazepines.
  • Gordillo was previously convicted for assaulting another El Principal reporter earlier that same night and received a one‑year prison sentence with two years of supervised liberty, a ruling later upheld on appeal.