Sandro Rosell passed the microphones on “The Window” of Cadena SER on the occasion of the launch of his book “A strong hug” after spending 645 days in preventive detention.
Who puts you in jail ?: “At the beginning of the book I put six or seven options that are discarded. To make it very clear, that of the Neymar, soccer and Real Madrid issue is not. For the rest, we must wait for it, I have filed a complaint with Judge Lamela because it is the only way that I can get to know who is behind it, who has fraudulently moved the system to get a citizen to be jailed for two years in a preventive way without any cause, but if they do not accept this complaint I will not be able to To know. This complaint should have been filed by the National Court automatically. “
Reason for arrest: “I don't know but I would like to know”.
Departure: “They told us not 13 times”.
When they tell you to go home: “I feel that there is hope that there are still just judges. I thought in the 645 days that there was no justice and that it was all fraud. The happiness of seeing my parents and daughters. Being part of a country where you thought that there was a democracy that returns that day. I was lucky to find three just judges there and on appeal. They made me think that justice in Spain does work. There are six people who do not care what they have been pressured and they have applied the law and justice. “
Conspiracy: “After 645 days thinking, many ideas occur to me and you are discarding options. As I have no evidence, I cannot accuse you: there are two options or this or the bad luck that four things have come together. It is unthinkable to think that a prosecutor from the Audiencia National, all of a sudden, officially investigate a Spanish citizen to favor a Brazilian company when this company does not want to be favored and does not want to be defended, but the National Court investigates and “attacks” a Spanish to defend a Brazilian. I could understand that the Brazilian National Court attacks a Spaniard but in reverse. “
Crime: “The record for an alleged private crime. When they arrested us, they asked why and the police do not know. Before entering the prison, they let us know a little about what the issue is about and they ordered us to be imprisoned. They accused us of something that it did not happen and that if it had happened it would not have been a crime. “
Contract as an intermediary: “It was what I have done more than 30 years in sports marketing. Contracts like these I will have done hundreds of. Absolutely, legal, private, we still have not found justification. We took a fee for a service. Commissions are charged by commercial agents. It is a legal and honorable job. In Spain it has become taboo. what we did was a remuneration and not a declared commission in the countries where that money had passed “.
May 23, 2017: “It came from China. I receive a message telling me that my house is being searched. The press arrives before the police. It must be normal practice in this country. Some official breaks the rules and notifies the media before police”.
Envelopes in the coat: “I cannot say that they place it because I do not see it, but in the morning they were not there and it was not mine. The money was kept in a safe. That day I had 200 euros in the whole house and suddenly an envelope appeared and They record it. Someone wanted to make you worse than they wanted to do. In the end it was 5,000 euros and at home you can have up to 100,000. They already put the image because they had decided so. “
Register in the closet: “It's funny because in the rest of the record I'm sitting in a chair. That's when my whole head changes.”
United States interest: “It is another of the things that I think. It is one of the five ways.”
Demand of 30 million euros: “All copyrights go to the foundation of Father Paulino and the other is the demand to the State, which is the economic damage they have done to us. The technicians value it but two years of life are worth everything. As everything is valued .. A life is not paid. They have valued the two years. I told the technicians to be fair. The figure was double. “
Worst day: “The day they tell me not for the 13th time, but in the end everything happens.”
Jail idea: “Until you go and live it. Deep down when you hear that someone has gone to jail we are all selfish and think that he is there and not me. Now I am interested in the case and the person. There are things in jail just like in the movies and others not. A week after being in jail we were taken to module 4 a German prisoner asks me to show him the cell because he thought he had a suite. “
Cell: “It is 6 meters for two people with a bunk bed, there is a toilet with no door and iron. I remember the winter because we were not ashamed but it was so cold that you were stuck. They allow you the TV if you can buy it.”
Barça impresses: “Soccer continues to be soccer and the bad luck that they put me without any cause. Being the president of Barça helped them to respect me or to have a differential affection.”
Stigma of the passage of the jail: “You are recorded for life and now you go to Google and look for my name you will be amazed with what you read about me and it affects you. I have been one of the most researched and what better than to work with me, now these multinationals with which I have worked They don't want to hire you because you are on Google. The judge's damage has no name. “
Doubt you: “Yes, of course when you are arrested you think what you have done. It cannot be all that assembly, of police, prosecutors, judicial officials and the public money that has been wasted and then you can only think that you have done something inadvertently. If I have I have killed someone, I know I have killed them, but when the police come in and you don't understand anything, the first thing you think is something I will have done and when you see the record I already know that I haven't. “
Blocked accounts: “They block everything. Not even 1,000 for my wife. If I don't have a family, my wife and my daughters starve. I ask to pay the taxes that she pays a part of her salary and she says no. We resorted and they said yes. When I go to pay June 30 passes and I have to pay the 20% surcharge. I will claim and they have told me to wait six years. “
They expected money to come from elsewhere: “My father bears my expenses and I think it is to push yourself to the limit and look for the pact. The pacts are very perverse.”
Covenant: “My lawyer told me after a year and a half if I pleaded guilty and said not to speak. They would put me two years and a monetary fine.”
Judge Lamela: “I see that it ends badly because when I declare he looks at the mobile and the moment I enter the room I already see the prison order declared.”
Something personal: “What in Italian is called a 'vendetta'”.
Law-reviewed book: “What we could not demonstrate we have not put. Many tell me that when giving interviews they will come back for me.”
Lockdown: “The damage that the Covid-19 has done is terrible, but I have been confined with my wife and two daughters and after two years without being able to be with them for me it has been phenomenal. Knowing how horrible it is and what Have they died”.
Prejudge to the people: “I have changed a lot. Now I check things. I don't think I can.”
Love to confessed murderers: “I have won in empathy for people. In prison everything is magnified and people get the good out of the bad in people. With Joan I thought we were friends with murderers, but on the other hand he was nice. The controversy that goes through your head is beastly. “
Vis a vis: “In the intimates the place does not accompany”.
Rethink your jail?: “Absolutely”.
Help Father Paulino: “He helped me a lot in prison on a spiritual level and I told him that when he came out I would help him. And the way to help is to get resources so that he can pay lawyers for people who are innocent.”