the brazilian footballer, Dani Alves is accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl in a nightclub on December 30, 2022. For this fact, he is in jail but the Court could define his freedom next week.
The Court of Barcelona held on Thursday a meeting to discuss the provisional detention of the Brazilian and everything seemed to indicate that the decision of the three members of the court was going to be known, but the resolution will be made public next week.
The news the contribution of the Spanish journalist Carlos Quílez in the program And now Sonsoles. Both the prosecution and the complainant’s defense requested that Alves continue in prisonat the request of Cristóbal Martell, the footballer’s lawyer.
Dani Alves’ version
player’s defense admitted for the first time that there was vaginal penetration, but maintains that it was consensual because it highlights that the victim did not present injuries typical of a rape.
In addition, Martell, also a lawyer for Lionel Messi, tried to demonstrate the defendant’s roots in the city of Barcelona to defend that there is no risk of escape.
The case
The attack for which Dani Alves was arrested would have taken place at the Sutton bowling alley in Barcelona. The complainant stated that the soccer player put his hand inside her underwearafter which she notified her friends and they alerted the local security.
The young woman and her group of friends were taken to a safe space and those responsible for the nightclub notified the Catalan Police, whose agents went there. When the victim referred to the facts, the 39-year-old player had already left the premises.
It is worth noting that several present in the dance venue indicated that the soccer player invited the victim and her friends to sit at her VIP table through a waiter, as stated by the complainant. The waiter affirmed that it was he who approached the three women with the proposal.
