Reality can be interpreted in many ways, and readers are smart enough to draw their own conclusions from published opinion. This is relevant because of the different yardsticks with which the majority of the media attend to two of the great media protagonists this week: King Juan Carlos and Joan Laporta.
The president of Barça held a press conference on Monday designed more in a judicial key and to prevent the club from being punished in court than to really clarify how it was possible that so many amounts of money had been paid to a former soccer referee. It is clear that it is impossible to justify the unjustifiable, but there is no evidence that the money spent has served to rig the league competition and that, rather, we are facing a case of unfair administration. Among all the newspaper pages, radio and television hours, tweets and other media noise that has been poured out these weeks, there is no real proof that Barça has managed to buy over a hundred referees over several years to win leagues. The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, affirmed yesterday that he was convinced that Barça wanted to influence the arbitrations, but there is still no fact to confirm it. Only that an indecent amount has been paid to a representative of the arbitration committee.
On the other hand, on the other side of the scale, the emeritus king appears as a victim because, without having any pending legal proceedings, he is being discussed with the fact that he can come to Spain to practice his favorite sport and get in shape (at 85 years of age) to participate in future regattas. In the performance of King Juan Carlos there are conclusive judicial reports. The Prosecutor’s Office filed the case against him, stating that criminal proceedings could be instituted for his actions, but that his condition of inviolability by article 56.3 of the Constitution made it impossible. Prosecutors specifically cited money laundering and tax violations. There is nothing.
This is the reality of both cases, waiting for the end of the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office against Barça. The rest are speculations and sentencing something that has not yet come to trial.
