Barcelona star Lamine Yamal has denied reports of a sex crime at his home, after a complaint surfaced alongside a separate claim by Ansu Fati’s brother that a woman had sexually assaulted him. Both the player’s legal team and the Catalan police have publicly stated that the incident did not take place at any property belonging to Yamal.
Background: what the complaint alleges
According to Spanish newspaper ABC, a Dutch woman filed a complaint claiming she was the victim of a sexual assault at the home of Barcelona player Lamine Yamal. The reports indicate the incident is said to have occurred on February 7, when the woman attended a party at a Barcelona nightclub where Ansu Fati’s brother — known as “Fatiño” — was also present.
The complainant stated that the group later moved from the nightclub to a private residence in Barcelona, which she alleged was Yamal’s home. She said she woke up the following morning naked and was subjected to inappropriate touching. She also expressed her belief that she may have been in a state of “altered consciousness,” possibly due to the influence of banned substances, which she said left her vulnerable to the assault.
Yamal’s denial and the police position
Yamal immediately moved to deny any involvement in the incident. The law firm representing the Barcelona forward sent a message to the Spanish media that addressed the claims directly and aligned with the account already given by the Catalan police.
According to that statement, the incident was untrue, Yamal had no connection to the alleged events, and the incident did not take place on any of his properties. By confirming the same set of facts from both the club’s legal representatives and the regional police, the denial is unusually firm for this stage of a complaint — normally the police confine themselves to procedural comments while a case is under review.
Where the story sits now
The story intersects two separate threads: the complaint filed by the Dutch woman, and the claim by Ansu Fati’s brother that a woman had sexually assaulted him. Reporting so far has connected both threads to the same night out in Barcelona on February 7, but the player’s side has drawn a clear line by denying that his home was the location described in the complaint.
For Yamal, whose profile has grown rapidly both on and off the pitch since breaking into Barcelona’s first team, the public denial matters as much reputationally as it does legally. Because both his lawyers and the Catalan police have described the incident as untrue and unconnected to his properties, the immediate pressure on the 17-year-old is to keep the story from overshadowing his on-pitch commitments with Barcelona in what has become one of the club’s most closely watched seasons of the last decade.
Spanish media are expected to follow up on the status of the complaint itself, but until further procedural details emerge, the public position from Yamal’s camp and from the Catalan police is that he has no involvement in the alleged events.
