The case relating to the alleged sexual violence by Albert Gudmundsson to a woman in Iceland. According to what was reported by Visir.is, the Icelandic Public Prosecutor’s Office has in fact decided to appeal against the sentence in the case of the Fiorentina footballer who was declared innocent on 10 October at the end of the trial which took place in Reykjavík.
The words of Gudmundsson’s lawyer.
The decision was confirmed by the attacker’s lawyer Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, with the defender stating: “It is surprising that the Public Prosecutor has decided to appeal against this sentence, as the sentence is very well reasoned and the result is legally correct”. The ruling is in fact 39 pages long, much more than what usually happens in similar cases.
The reasons.
The same ruling states, among other things, that the decision to declare Gudmundsson innocent was based mainly on the testimony of both the footballer and the woman who had reported him, as well as on the testimony of other individuals. The sentence was issued, as mentioned, last October 10th, more than 3 weeks ago, but according to the law on criminal procedure the Prosecutor’s Office has four weeks to appeal and it must therefore be made official by Thursday.