Alves trial judge: ‘There is more than enough evidence’

The lawyer defending the former FC Barcelona player, Christopher Martellfiled an appeal this week against this precautionary detention order. It is a 24-page text that should convince. Barcelona audience does not exist flight risk By Alves, and as a result, Alves must allow himself to wait freely for the celebration. trial, which may take a year or two to arrive.

Martell uses several reasons to justify that Alves had no reason to flee: his roots in Spain or the fact that he had traveled from the Canary Islands to meet with Alves. Mossos d’Esquadra, among others. But what he’s doing is also questioning whether the burden of proof against the football player that could have prompted him to seek asylum in Brazil, a country to which he will not be extradited, is as strong as Mossos. the special prosecutor’s office confirms, or the judge himself is in the car. To assess whether preventive detention is appropriate, as Marín Togada thinks, the Barcelona Court will also need to assess whether the evidence gathered to date is more than sufficient.

The crowd is “biased”

Attorney Martell is investigating the investigation. Mossos d’Esquadra Center for Sexual Assaults (UCAS)he is in charge of police investigations and criticizes Judge Marín for accepting him that way. “uncritical” Y “careless”. Of all the evidence the rest of the parties have considered, however, Martell questions only their interpretation of the surveillance footage of the minutes before the alleged breach.

According to the appeal against Alves’ detention, a viewing “callous” One of these images shows the 23-year-old victim and his friends sharing the early hours of that morning with Alves and a friend in the private room of the Sutton nightclub “in a fun and festive atmosphere.” And then it’s Alves who goes to the bathroom, and after a minute and 36 seconds Alves becomes the complainant who enters the bathroom in question without “giving way” or “opening the door” to him. Martell says the complainant described the previous environment as hostile and “scary” by the player. Alves’ objection also argues that the victim may have used “the same narrative distortion” to describe what happened in the bathroom over a period of 16 minutes away from the cameras.

Sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO indicate that Martell’s implied footage from the cameras does not match the victim’s account, as these images also give the impression that the football player is standing by the bathroom door and is. according to young woman doing Alves persistent movements to follow him to the bathroom.

Cameras, fingerprints, injuries and witnesses

The nightclub’s security cameras and witnesses—like the waiters and friends of the victim—confirm that Alves and his 23-year-old client met in a reserved spot at the nightclub at the request of the former person, whom he sent a waiter twice to persuade. to meet him and his two friends there. The woman’s complaint makes Alves invite them to java, immediately starts making fun of the three of them, clinging to them and touching them. He then stood behind the victim and started saying things he didn’t understand, probably because it was Portuguese. It was alleged that he held Alves’s hand at that time and brought it to his penis in a gesture that he repeated twice despite Alves’s resistance. Later, Alves insisted that the young woman enter a bathroom, which she claimed had agreed to enter without knowing it was a bathroom. There is no record of what was going on in that void. The woman says she wants to go as soon as she sees a bathroom with a toilet and sink, but confirms that Alves closed the door and prevented it.

They were detained for 16 minutes. Then Alves came out of the bathroom and did it 30 seconds later. Alves did not return to his friend and went straight to buy a drink. The complainant, on the other hand, approached his friend and whispered something in his ear, and both women left. Although neither Alves nor the victim had shared those 16 minutes in the bathroom, they never interacted or looked at each other again. They didn’t say goodbye.

As EL PERIÓDICO reports, there is another recording, the recording of the Mossos d’Esquadra agent who joined him that night, on his chest, accidentally made by the camera that was activated without the police noticing. That camera recorded the young woman minutes after the events. These images in the case reflect the sham and grief of the complainant, who has already presented a version of what happened in the Sutton bathroom, which he will hide at the police station two days later and at the forensic center three weeks later. .

in the bathroom

According to the complainant, Alves sat on the bathroom vanity and made him sit on it as well. He then threw her to the ground and tried to get her to give oral sex. He slapped her and grabbed her by the neck. Then he lifted her up, pressed her against the sink and finally pushed her towards the toilet and raped her in this position and ejaculated.

Alves has tried three or four different versions, but none of them fit the evidence. In a video he first sent to Antena 3, he said he entered the bathroom without knowing he was inside and immediately left. Later, when he was reminded that he had been in the bathroom with him for 16 minutes in the court, he said that he went to the bathroom and the woman opened the door and stayed with him without doing anything. And finally, after Alves had him see there was semen in the bathroom, he explained that while he was sitting around doing his business, the woman walked in, jumped on him, and had oral sex. This last attempt did not convince the judge, who, among other things, took into account that there were traces of semen on the complainant’s body during the forensic medical examination at the Hospital Clinic.

The young woman who allegedly pushed her to the ground has sores on her knees, and science police found semen and additional fingerprints in places that coincided with a series of incidents, as reported by the complainant. The police officers Mossos identified in that reserved area during the tech-police eye examination (IOTP) also match his words.