This Investigation Barcelona asked the judge to keep the former FC Barceloba player. daniel alves in temporary prison during investigates what he claims sexual assault To a woman at the Sutton nightclub on Tuset street in Barcelona on December 30, 2022.
Sources from the prosecution announced that the prosecution took a position on this issue prior to Alves’ appeal last week, demanding parole with other security measures while the investigation of the case was still ongoing.
In the prosecutor’s view, the reasons for the judge’s sending him to prison are still valid: he sees “reasonable indications” that he committed the alleged violation, and that, in his view, “the risk of escape without alternative measures remains” and the prison sentence proposed by the defense mitigates such aims”.
Therefore, according to public ministry sources, The prosecution rejects precautionary measures regarding passport withdrawal, daily appearances and telematic wristbands. Who made the defense? The private prosecution, led by lawyer Ester García on behalf of the victim, must now present her claims. The player will then refer the case to the Third Division of the Barcelona Court to decide whether to release Alves or impose an injunction on him.
tips are more than enough
In his prison order, the judge ruled: “There are more than enough indications” to consider the necessity of the crime of sexual assault, especially the crime of rape. The judge argued that in the imprisonment of the football player there is a serious risk of such offenses and, above all, escape. In this sense, he implied that according to him the player does not have any relevant origins in Barcelona or Spain, which would make him believe that he will stay in that country after learning of his accusation. rape and high prison sentences fraudulent (up to 12 years imprisonment). Togada came to define the athlete’s flight risk as high.
In addition to the player’s contradictions at the time of his testimony (he changed the version three times) and the evidence corroborating, in his opinion, the evidence against Alves, the judge stated that the player’s “high economic capacity“, not only because of what he got from the Mexican Pumas team, from which he was fired after he was arrested and jailed, but also because of other income.
This thesis on the economic capacity of the actor is one of the elements on which Alves’ objection, defended by lawyer Cristóbal Martell, is based. In his letter, the lawyer reminded that the player’s income decreased due to the Mexican team’s decision to fire him, as the brands that supported his professional career turned their backs on him and canceled their sponsorship. contracts or suspended. However, the player has other businesses in Brazil, a country that usually does not repatriate its citizens.
On appeal, the Brazilian star clings to defending his innocence on the security camera footage of the private room of the Sutton nightclub, where he allegedly sexually assaulted the young complainant. In the letter, it is claimed that the images taken in the private room placed some expressions given in the prison setting in the position of “heavy quarantine or doubt of value”, adding credibility and credibility to the victim’s statement. In the jurist’s understanding, these claims “appear inconsistently because they are false.”