November 27, 2024, 8:17 PM
November 27, 2024, 8:17 PM
Former footballer Robson de Souza ‘Robinho’ will remain in jail while the Supreme Court judges the appeals with which he intends to avoid carrying out his sentence for rape, as the high court decided this Wednesday.
The Supreme Court ordered to keep Robinho in jail in a virtual trial that concluded in the early hours of this Wednesday that ended with nine votes in favor of maintaining the prison and two votes in favor of granting him a ‘habeas corpus’.
Robinho has been in prison since last March, serving a nine-year sentence for rape imposed by the Italian Justice.
The former soccer player’s defense, with its latest appeals to the Supreme Court, is trying to challenge the judicial decision that gave the green light to carrying out the sentence in Brazil.
The former player for clubs such as Real Madrid, Milan and Manchester City was convicted in Italy in 2017 for a group rape of a woman committed in 2013 in Milan.
Robinho could not be imprisoned then because, before the sentence was known, he returned to Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its nationals.
The former forward was arrested in Santos on March 21 after a Brazilian court approved the sentence and allowed it to be carried out in the country.
A day later, he entered the Tremembé prison, in the state of Sao Paulo.
