FC Barcelona will demand the withdrawal of Real Madrid from the League and the Copa del Rey basketball if the Slaughter case ends in a conviction. This was stated yesterday by Barça lawyer Jordi Pina in the RAC1 microphones in reference to the information published by La Vanguardia about the reactivation of the judicial case for the alleged falsification of the former center's passport after four and a half years of paralysis. “We will ask that Madrid be stripped of its titles,” the lawyer said emphatically as long as the trial ends in a conviction.
Real Madrid is not listed as a defendant as a legal entity because none of the accusations – nor Barça – during the nine years that the investigation has lasted, has considered that they had knowledge of the alleged falsification of the Equatoguinean passport of their player Slaughter. “Madrid was not aware of this irregularity at the time,” Pina recalled. However, he assured that in addition to resorting to sporting channels to claim the withdrawal of the titles, the club also reserves the option of resorting to civil channels to claim the financial gains that Real Madrid would have obtained thanks to winning the League. ACB and the Cup.
The Barcelona Football Club changed its lawyer in the summer and after taking on the matter, it demanded the location of Slaughter and Andy Panko, a former Fuenlabrada player also accused of having falsified his Equatoguinean passport, after realizing that four years had passed without the court finding them. . The only judicial procedure that had to be carried out was to hand deliver the order opening the oral trial against them. However, being abroad, the court issued rogatory commissions so that the authorities of their countries of origin, in this case the United States, followed up on the order. The search for Slaughter was so unsuccessful that in July of last year the court, at the request of Barça, issued a search and arrest warrant against the former player with the aim of serving him with the summons. Since last February 7, all the defendants in the case have been notified that a trial is being opened against them, which should lead to a date and time for the oral hearing to be held. The last to be notified was coach Hugo López, who currently works in China. Last year when they were looking for him, he went to court but did not find anyone at the counter and the court continued looking for him. In the end he managed to get notification of the trial sent to him by email after almost five years to complete the process.
