The Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office ruled this Tuesday against the possible release of former footballer Robson de Souza’Robinho‘, imprisoned since March 22 in a prison in Brazil after the Justice approved the 9-year prison sentence to which he was sentenced in Italy for a gang rape.
“The statement (by the Prosecutor’s Office) is for the rejection of the request,” said the Attorney General of Brazil, Paulo Gonet, in an opinion sent to the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which is analyzing an appeal in which the defense of the former attacker of clubs such as Real Madrid, Manchester City and Milan ask for his release.
The lawyers of the soccer player revealed by the Santos club presented a habeas corpus requesting the release of their client until the Supreme Court makes a definitive ruling on whether the sentence handed down by the Italian Justice can be served in Brazil. The defense alleges that Robinho, 40, still has the right to file some appeals before higher courts, so his conviction cannot be considered firm and definitive.
The Prosecutor, however, alleges that the sentence handed down by the Italian Justice is final; that the former soccer player was considered “definitely guilty with knowledge,” and that in Brazil the merit of his conviction or his guilt is no longer discussed. “The fact that the process has not been processed in Brazil does not alter that conclusion,” Gonet alleged in his opinion. The Prosecutor also adds, “that there is no constitutional guarantee so that the Brazilian can respond in freedom until the final decision of the approval of the foreign sentence.”
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Robinho was arrested on March 21 after the Superior Court of Justice approved the sentence of the Italian Justice and decided that he must serve the sentence imposed on him in Italy in a Brazilian prison.
The attack occurred in 2017 in Milan
The former soccer player was convicted in Italy in 2017 for the gang rape of a young Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub in 2013, but he was free because before the conclusion of the trial he returned to Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its nationals. .
The Italian authorities asked the Brazilian Justice to approve the sentence and, consequently, determine the imprisonment of the former soccer player so that he could serve the sentence in his country of origin. After the decision of the Superior Court of Justice to approve the sentence, Robinho was taken to the Tremembé prison, in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo.
