Barcelona football star Lionel Messi and his father will appeal against a Spanish court decision to sentence them each to 21 months in jail for ...

I read somewhere that Spanish law dictates that you can avoid prison sentences of less than 2 years by paying fines/other forms of punishment etc. Was something along the lines that Messi would pay a fine, and be banned from leaving the country, so he could play domestic UCL games, but not away games.


Which sounds ridiculous to me.




Zarkadon or some one confirm/debunk??

This post was edited by Crestron on Jul 6 2016 04:11pm

You can pay fines and avoid it if your sentence is under 2 years and you meet 2 conditions:

-You have a clean record
-The judge doesn't consider that setting you free could put others in danger, or there is a very high chance that it would cause some sort of harm

Since Messi meets both of those conditions, he will avoid jail time.

This post was edited by zarkadon on Jul 6 2016 04:21pm

I see.

What about travelling abroad? well he be "grounded" for any time period?

^^ That's what I read. Although he is one of the great's I never liked his attitude

why would he, someone that famous cant just vanish ^^

stop, metasploit!

or dakota

This post was edited by Chilavert on Jul 8 2016 02:41pm

There is no risk of Messi to escape lol.