He affirms that “he is being treated as any other defendant would be treated”
BARCELONA, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the court that judges the ‘Neymar 2 case’, José Manuel del Amo, denied this Tuesday that he had given “any favored treatment” to the player for letting him be absent from the trial in which he is accused of alleged corruption and fraud in his signing for FC Barcelona from Santos FC.
“He was allowed to leave not because he is a player of the world elite or because he is one of the great stars of the Brazilian team,” said the magistrate of section 6 of the Barcelona Court before beginning the interrogation of the player.
On Monday, Neymar’s defense asked that he and his parents, also accused, be excused from being in the room because they had traveled to Barcelona at dawn after the player’s game on Sunday, and the judge has said that he accepted taking into account account that the trial was in the process of preliminary questions, “which are especially dry.”
“It’s basically about giving people a dignified treatment, and if people have stayed in the anecdote that I heard I had scored a goal, then let them keep the anecdote, but the reality is what it is”, has said the judge in reference to his own comment on Monday, when in allowing Neymar to leave he said that he had heard the player’s goal on the radio while he was already in bed.
Del Amo has reiterated that there has been no favored treatment in relation to Neymar or his parents: “That we are here doing the wave as if we were in the stands, well no. He is being treated as any other accused”.
Neymar is exempt from attending the rest of the trial except for the last word of the accused, which the court has accepted that he can do by videoconference.
This Tuesday the player has gone to trial for his interrogation, in which he has declared that he did not participate in the negotiations of his transfer but that his father was in charge.
