Footballer Rafa Mir will face his first day of trial this Thursday in the Fourth Section of the Valencia Court, where he will be tried for allegedly sexually assaulting and causing injuries to a 21-year-old woman he met in a nightclub in València on the night of August 31, 2024, and with whom he later went to his home in the Valencian town of Bétera. The Prosecutor's Office is seeking a sentence of 10 and a half years in prison for him.
The public ministry charges Rafa Mir, then a player for Valencia CF and currently with Elche, with one count of sexual assault and another of injuries. In addition to the prison sentence, the prosecutor requests that he be prohibited from approaching or communicating with the victim for 10 years, special disqualification from any professional activity or trade involving contact with minors for eight years beyond the prison sentence, and a period of seven years of supervised release after serving the sentence. He also requests that he compensate the young woman with 64,000 euros for the injuries and moral damages caused.
Also listed as a defendant in the same case is footballer Pablo Jara, Mir's teammate, for whom the Prosecutor's Office is seeking three years in prison and a fine for the alleged sexual assault of a second young woman, 25, whom he allegedly touched on three occasions in a swimming pool despite her refusal. The public ministry also seeks a fine of 1,350 euros for a minor offense of injuries against one of the girls.
Both players were processed in October 2025 by the judge of Court of First Instance and Instruction number 8 of Llíria, who ordered proceedings to continue against them for separate sexual assault offenses, in Rafa Mir's case with carnal access and use of violence.
According to the Prosecutor's Office's account, the two footballers met the young women in a nightclub in València and, after the venue closed, they went to Mir's house. There, the player initially had consensual relations with one of the girls in a room.
Meanwhile, his companion Pablo and another friend who was not prosecuted were in the pool, where the other young woman remained seated in a chair. When Mir left the room, he went directly towards her, "picked her up in his arms, throwing her into the pool fully clothed" and, once in the water, held her tightly, began to kiss her on the face and neck, grabbed her face to force her to kiss him and touched her without her consent, thus producing a first sexual assault, according to the accusation.
The young woman then left the pool hastily with the intention of going home and called her father to come pick her up. However, upon leaving the house she realized she had forgotten her purse and returned to get it. At that moment, according to the public prosecutor, the accused assaulted her sexually again in the bathroom "while she cried and told him she wanted to leave, managing to break free and get out."
When the first girl left the room, she also went to the pool area and jumped into the water. It was then that the defendant Pablo approached her and, "after talking to her and with the intention of satisfying his libidinous desires," touched her intimate parts despite the young woman's opposition, always according to the prosecutor's brief.
The girl saw how her friend came out of the bathroom "crying with a major anxiety attack" and followed her to try to calm her down. Pablo chased them and pushed one of them, who fell to the ground. Next, according to the Prosecutor's Office, he punched her in the face while shouting: "You're just little girls, get lost," took her towel and closed the door, leaving her half-naked in the street.
At that moment a neighbor passed by the area, who alerted the security guards of the development. Shortly after, two patrols of the Local Police also arrived, who remained at the scene until the father of one of the young women arrived to pick them up.
After being released, Rafa Mir denied having committed the sexual assault and demanded that his presumption of innocence be respected. His defense requests his acquittal.
The player's lawyer issued a statement in which he emphasized that Rafa Mir's presumption of innocence should be respected, protected both by the Spanish Constitution and by the European Directive 2016/343, and pointed out that the criminal proceedings would serve "to clarify the facts." "It will be shown that the accusation is unfounded," he said then.