De Gea Sent Home For Allegations
Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has been sent home from Spain’s Euro 2016 squad.
Allegations in the Spanish press are said to have led to De Gea, 25, being dismissed from the Spain squad on the day of the opening fixture between France and Romania.
He was named in Vicente del Bosque’s 23-man Spain squad for the European Championship, but a replacement will now be called up unless De Gea is reinstated.
He was expected to be Spain’s first-choice goalkeeper at Euro 2016 after serving as deputy to Iker Casillas at the 2014 World Cup, having being named United’s Player of the Season for the third consecutive year last month.
The former Atletico Madrid stopper joined United in 2011 for a fee in the region of £17.8m, a deal which represented the largest fee a British club has paid for a goalkeeper.
The Spain squad is scheduled to hold a press conference on Friday evening. It is not thought that De Gea will be in attendance.
Spanish newspaper El Diario has seen documents where a protected witness made claims about De Gea and Spain U21 team-mate Iker Munian
A protected witness has claimed David De Gea organised an abusive, non-consensual sex ‘party’ with prostitutes for two Spain Under-21 team-mates in 2012, according to court documents seen by Spanish newspaper El Diario .
De Gea and Iker Muniain have been implicated by testimony given in the investigation of porn baron Torbe – real name Ignacio Allende Fernandez – who has been jailed for a number of offences including child pornography, extortion, trafficking and sexual exploitation.
A female witness, whose identity is being protected and is named only as TP3, was giving evidence against Torbe in which she claimed that the porn site owner was also the head of a prostitution ring that abused women from both Spain and abroad – some of them underage.
The witness, who was forced into Torbe’s network of prostitutes, has given evidence that she was grabbed by the arm and forced into a bedroom with another girl and two footballers in a five-star penthouse in central Madrid.
