Brasília, March 7. Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ) has rejected the withdrawal of former soccer player Robson de Souza ‘Robinho”s passport, as part of the open process to approve the nine-year prison sentence he received in Italy for a crime of rape, this court reported on Tuesday.
The president of the STJ, judge Maria Thereza de Assis Moura, rejected an appeal by the Brazilian Women’s Union, a civil association present in 25 of the 27 states of the country, which demanded such a measure given “the risk” that Robinho leave the national territory.
The organization argues that the case has “exceptional social relevance, given that there would be notable impunity for football players in cases of sexual violence”, according to the judgment.
However, the judge rejected the request, considering that the analysis of it is “premature” because the process is still in its infancy and the former player of Real Madrid, Manchester City and the AC Milan has not yet been summoned to this statement.
This decision comes within the framework of the process initiated in the STJ for ‘Robinho’ to carry out in Brazil the sentence of nine years in prison pronounced by the Italian courts, which found him guilty of having participated in a gang rape suffered by a young Albanian woman in a nightclub in Milan in 2013.
Similarly, the Brazilian justice has launched a process of standardization of the sentence received by one of the friends of the former attacker, Ricardo Falco, also found guilty of the same facts.
The Brazilian Constitution does not provide for the extradition of nationals, but it does provide that a citizen convicted abroad, as is the case, serve their sentence in the country, if the procedure is in accordance with the law and the sentence does not exceed thirty years in prison. .
Robinho, now 39, lives in the town of Santos, home of the club where he began his sporting career and from where he made the jump to European football with Real Madrid in 2005.