Real Madrid official: Editor-in-chief of the editor-in-chief of the Confidential News was convicted of leaking Florentino recordings and required 1 euro to compensate

August 15th, Real Madrid official issued an announcement today, announcing that the editor of the Spanish media "Confidential" was convicted of leaking the recording of Real Madrid Chairman Florentino. The editor will apologize to Florentino, compensate 1 euro and bear the litigation costs.

【Background】

The Confidential News exposed several Florentino's call recordings in 2021, including "Royce is a lunatic", "Murinho is abnormal", "Cassi is a pug", "Raul, Cassi is a liar", etc.

[Real Madrid Official Announcement]

Confidential and its editor-in-chief Ignacio Cardero was sentenced for illegally infringing the reputation rights of Real Madrid President Florentino Perez

The Supreme Court has confirmed the judgment made by the 42nd Trial Court of Madrid on October 6, 2022, which determines that El Confidencial and its editor-in-chief Ignacio Cardero are responsible for illegally infringing the reputation rights of Real Madrid President Florentino Perez. The judgment is final and has been confirmed by the provincial court.

Confidential Report published a series of recordings from the private conversations of the President of Real Madrid within days in July 2021, which were recorded without his consent. In its ruling, the judge pointed out that "the form and content of the publication show that its purpose is always to damage the public image of Mr. Florentino Perez Rodriguez. This does constitute an illegal infringement of his right to reputation."

"The purpose is therefore not to inform the truth, but to direct the public opinion of newspaper readers and the entire society toward negative views on the plaintiff and to degrade his individuals. This obviously constitutes an act of attempting to slander and cannot obtain asylum under the so-called defense of the rights and obligations of information."

"This court believes that the confidential newspaper has cross-border behavior in the use of its freedom of information, which translates into an illegal infringement of the plaintiff's right to reputation."

"This court supports the lawsuit filed against the confidential newspaper and its director, Mr. Ignacio Cardero, and declares two A co-defendant committed the illegal infringement of the reputation rights of Mr. Florentino Perez Rodriguez for his release of the recording of the plaintiff in a multi-issue serialized form in July 2021; and sentenced them to be jointly and severally liable, and must publish this judgment in the same font and size as other news on the same page within fifteen natural days after the entry into force of this judgment;

also requires the validity and permanent suspension of the dissemination and distribution of all or part of the content of the recording of the conversation, and prohibit its full or partial copying; in addition, they are sentenced to jointly bear joint and several liability to compensate the plaintiff 1 euro in the name of damages and order the defendant to pay all litigation costs incurred).source:ket qua 7m