Barca to work with police in abuse claims

Key Facts

- Sam Marsden Joan Laporta has said Barcelona will collaborate with the police after Albert Benaiges, the former head of the club's youth system, was accused of sexual abuse of children in his charge over 20 years, accusations he denies.
The Barca president has also offered his support to the people who came forward after an investigation by the newspaper Ara, which included interviews with more than 60 witnesses, detailed Benaiges' actions when he was a physical education teacher at a school in the Catalan city during the 1980s and 1990s.
The allegations include Benaiges exposing himself to boys and girls at the school and touching children, but there have not been any accusations linked to Barca's academy, where Benaiges worked between 1992 and 2012 before returning earlier this year.
After leaving Barca, Benaiges, who was born in Mexico, worked for Al-Wasl in the United Arab Emirates, Chivas in Mexico and Cibao in the Dominican Republic before reuniting with Iniesta at Vissel Kobe in Japan.