Lamine Yamar's family home in Premià de Dalt and viral fake Messi bathing image debunked

Barcelona striker Lamine Yamar, 19, has bought a house for his mother Sheila Ebana and his younger brother in Premià de Dalt, a quiet municipality on the Catalan coast between the Serralada Litoral mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. The property includes a garden and a pool and is about a half‑hour from Barcelona, offering the family privacy and space away from media attention.

A circulating image claiming to show a baby Lamine Yamar bathing Lionel Messi was examined and found to be AI‑generated. The picture bears SynthID watermarks that identify it as created with artificial‑intelligence tools. The original 2007 photograph from a UNICEF‑backed Barcelona campaign shows Messi with a young Yamar, but the manipulated version adding a bathtub scene is not present on Yamar's Instagram and has been confirmed false.