Dani Alves He will serve one month in prison. The footballer who shone Barcelona and in the selection of Brazil He has yet to be released on house arrest or access bail since he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl at a nightclub in the capital of Catalonia. As time passes, and his lawyers try to obtain some advantages for him so that the legal proceedings do not live behind bars, an inmate of the prison of Brian 2 spoke to a Spanish TV show and gave some details about the 39-year-old athlete’s new life.
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As he said in a dialogue with The Ana Rosa programthe days of Alves They weren’t easy on his psyche, but little by little he got used to the confinement. After a few days of anguish, he began to socialize with his colleagues: “Help where you can. Buy people things to eat and all that. Help and invite. He tries to go unnoticed and is very affable with people. It is not a star. There are officials who water dance for him and there are others who are happy to have him there.
It should be remembered that from abroad these prisoners can even load a certain amount of money on a card which they can spend in internal stores in exchange for food. This is how the former Juventus and PSG player collaborates with his new teammates with whom he even sometimes talks about the case that put him behind bars.
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“He doesn’t talk too muchbut what he says is that he didn’t abuse anyone, or hit anyone. And that if the girl hadn’t wanted to, he wouldn’t have wanted to do it. That he didn’t force anyone”, revealed the prisoner who also reported on what is going on in the footballer’s head: “He believes he will continue inside. Now when the girl said she doesn’t want money or anything either, it affects her. But he thinks he shouldn’t be in there and he doesn’t feel good about it.”
Recall that the complainant waived the possibility of receiving financial compensation if the crime of sexual assault is finally proven. In addition, his statements have always been firm with his first version, unlike that of the Brazilian who changed four times and it was only on the last that he admitted that there had been sexual relations with the complainant. , even if for him they were consensual. In turn, Alves assured his wife that he did not remember anything that happened that night.
Meanwhile, the defense of the former Pumas de México player (a club that terminated his contract after his arrest) He tries to get him released on house or bail with an electronic anklet. The decision of Justice was to be known this Thursday, but it was finally postponed for a week. The prosecution, for its part, insists that there is a risk of absconding and that is why the athlete must remain locked up while the case progresses.
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The 39-year-old has been detained for almost a month in Barcelona for the cause for which he is accused
The 39-year-old Brazilian is accused of raping the 23-year-old girl in the toilets of the Sutton nightclub on December 30, 2022 and if Justice proves it, he will face the law popularly known as only yes is yes which entered into force on October 7 last year. It indicates that “in the event of sexual assault, whether vaginal, anal or oral, or the introduction of bodily members or objects by one of the first two routes, the responsible will be punished as a prisoner of rape with a sentence of 4 to 12 years”.
According to the testimony of the complainant and the statement of her lawyer in the media, the footballer forced the woman into the bathroom of the place, where attacked her with a blow and forced her to have sex. Moreover, the lawyer indicated that the former Barcelona winger did not use a condom.
DNA tests analyzed in the young woman’s dress and in the bathroom of the place put Alves on the ropes, whose defense maintains that the sexual relationship was consensual and whose main pillar of this version is that in the cameras security supposedly the player is observed entering the bathroom seconds before the young woman does. According to Alves’ lawyers, this proves that she was not forced into it.
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