The Brazilian soccer player Daniel Alves, arrested last Friday in Barcelona, is in the Brians 1 prison without the right to bail (due to flight risk) and awaiting trial after being charged with an alleged sexual assault and rape of a 23-year-old woman. years, which has renounced the compensation that the player would have to make, according to a report of the country.
The magistrate in the case warned the alleged victim that he has his right to compensation if there is a conviction, but he has preferred to reject any monetary compensation because his objective is that justice be done and that the player pay with jail for what happened.
The alleged sexual assault and rape occurred on December 30 in a bathroom in the VIP area at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, where Alves had met friends for dinner and a few drinks before New Year’s Eve. In her account to the Investigating Court number 15 of Barcelona, the young woman said that she was in the same place with two friends when they were invited, supposedly, by the former FC Barcelona footballer.
According to the testimony of the alleged victim that collects the newspaper AS, “they were both dancing and the player put his hand to her penis on several occasions, while she withdrew it. Subsequently, the Brazilian would have asked him to follow her through a door, and after crossing it he saw the small bathroom where the attack that he denounces took place, around half past four in the morning. There they both would have struggled and the Brazilian would have penetrated her vaginally.
Things we know so far about the Dani Alves case:
– Alves is in provisional prison without bail
– Has changed version THREE times
– The victim waives compensation if he pleads guilty
– There are medical reports that support sexual assault pic.twitter.com/4EJm1mR0Lo— #WhyTT (@xqTTs) January 22, 2023
After these events, the young woman went to the local security force, which activated the protocol for assistance to victims of sexual assault. At that time they could not locate Alves, who had already left the disco. Meanwhile, the girl was transferred to the Hospital Clínic, where she underwent a medical examination to find her biological remains.
For his part, Alves left Spain for Mexico, where he had a contract with the UNAM Pumas club (it was terminated after exploiting the rape case), and returned to Europe in the middle of last week for the funeral of his mother-in-law. . Only then was it possible to arrest him due to a complaint that was officially processed in the first days of January and not on the day of the alleged attack, since the victim was afraid that they would not believe him.
So far, the judge considers that the young woman’s statement is “forceful” and “persistent”, as are the conclusive reports of the Mossos, with biological evidence of the alleged rape. On the other hand, the testimony of Dani Alves has changed on several occasions, a detail that may be decisive in the verdict of the case.
First, the footballer assured Antena 3 that he did not know the lady and that he would like to deny everything, since he was hurting “his people”, although later a security video (summary evidence of the case) showed images of Alves in the company of the assaulted woman This version of the Brazilian changed in his statement, in which he acknowledged that there was sexual intercourse, but consensual.
These testimonies, the remains of semen found in the bathroom where the alleged assault and rape took place, as well as the images from the security videos were decisive in the judge’s decision to leave Dani Alves in prison, also taking into account the possible flight risk, since the footballer has the economic capacity to escape, has no roots in Spain, and is Brazilian (a country with which Spain has no extradition agreement).
