The management of Esportiu Claret de Barcelona, a sports entity in the Gràcia neighborhood that depends on the Claretian Missionaries, but is managed independently, has removed a karate instructor from the gym after receiving a complaint for an alleged sexual assault on a minor.
As explained this Thursday by sources from the Claretian Congregation, which has informed the prosecution of the family's complaint, last Wednesday, May 17, the center's management was informed of the alleged sexual assault on a minor by the hired instructor. In the center.
Based on the complaint, the management of the gym activated the protocol for the protection of minors that governs the entity, despite the fact that there had previously been no complaint against this instructor, who was in charge of a group of minors and a group of adults. .
The management of Esportiu Claret, an entity that depends on the Claretian Missionaries, which is managed autonomously and which for 47 years has offered its service to the neighborhoods of Gràcia and Sagrada Familia, set aside the same day that it learned of the complaint to the instructor of all his activities and, according to the same sources, he has not returned to the sports center.
Those in charge of the gym have also made available to the affected family the external service of the Claretian Missionaries for prevention and attention to possible affected persons, directed by the lawyer Xavier Puigdollers, and have communicated the facts to the Prosecutor's Office, in addition to making themselves available to the family "for any collaboration or investigation".
The management of the sports center met yesterday the families of the minors who had been under the responsibility of the precautionary instructor to inform them of the reason why he has been withdrawn from karate classes.
