The prosecution and special prosecutor’s office put all the evidence currently available on the table of the judges of the Third Division of the Barcelona Court this Thursday to indict the former Barça player. daniel alves For allegedly raping a 23-year-old girl at a disco. The player’s defense by lawyer Cristóbal Martell did just the opposite: put them The suspect, especially the meaning of the video recorded by the cameras of the buildings. “There is reason to be suspicious”Martell, later this Thursday’s session “early decision”. The court will decide in the next few hours or days whether the athlete, who has been detained since January 20, will be released.
The accusations opposed the release of the athlete, claiming not only the seriousness of the facts, but also the risk of escape. Even the victim’s lawyer ester garciaimplied the fact that the player can take a private flight and go to Brazilwhere a fifteen companies. “I understand that temporary detention must be maintained without bail, not only because of the existing signs of crime, but also because of the high risk of escape (…) To release him would be an attack on his psychological integrity. My client (…) The Ministry of Justice cannot allow him to be released. and my client is imprisoned (at home)”.
The underlying legal debate revolves around reality, in addition to the assessment of the evidence against the player. whether there is a flight risk With the economic opportunities that the athlete has in Brazil and if root enough in spain to confirm that he will not escape if he is released. This is one of the reasons why the investigating judge decided that he should go to jail in time. While Alves is willing to wear a telematics wristband to be tracked, this system is not effective according to the prosecution. The court will decide in the coming hours.
Martell defended the roots of the football player in our country. “Of course Alves has roots in Spain. His life revolves around Spain. Registered in Spain since 2010. He is married to a Spanish woman.” bar associations, according to the legal sources referenced by this newspaper. To prove this, he provided documents confirming that the player has two companies in Spain. He had already given the title deed to a house in his own time. Esplugues de Llobregat, where she and her ex-spouse live, and where her current partner lives. The lawyer recalls that Alves has been registered in Spain since 2010 and is married to a Spanish woman who was a model in his second marriage. Joana Sanz.
Former FC Barcelona player hugs to defend his innocence reserved security camera footage He allegedly sexually assaulted the young woman in a private bathroom at the Sutton nightclub. The appeal, signed by lawyer Cristóbal Martell, details how you can see the actor go to the private bathroom in this video. Two minutes (3.44 hours) later, the complainant, after “having a little chat with his two friends and a waiter”, goes to the door of that room, and the player who was already inside enters “without stepping or opening.” According to Martell, “the door” is contrary to the interpretation made by the same images. blame And Mossos d’Esquadra.
With these images, Martell is trying to argue that what happened in the bathroom was a sexual intercourse that took place with the consent of the 23-year-old girl. That’s the story the defense continued in her presentation to the court this Thursday. However, claiming that Alves used violence and did not take into account the stop warnings, the victim also stated that he entered the bathroom without knowing that it was a bathroom and because the athlete persistently signaled to follow him.
The actor changed his statement in court after the evidence was shown to him on January 20, before he went to prison. He said that first nothing happened, then the young woman went into the bathroom and they stood side by side doing nothing, and finally she jumped on the victim and gave oral sex. She never admitted penetration, as evidenced by DNA found in the complainant’s vaginal cavity. This Thursday, his lawyer implicitly assumed., for the first time, there may be penetration, emphasizing that there was no injury in that part of the young woman’s body.
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Special prosecutor’s attorney, Ester García, has used the economic capacity to live anywhere in the world in her claims, as she has submitted documents to the court showing that the footballer has fifteen companies with a capital of one million euros. In Brazil, the place of origin and residence of their children. To him, this confirms the “high” risk of escape. The prosecution cited all the evidence supporting, in their view, Alves committed the sexual assault. One of these is the analysis of underwear from the victim’s intravaginal semen and other residues. The DNA of these fluids is from the football player. As the complainant described, this test will reveal penetration.
The lawyer also referred to the recording published by EL PERIÓDICO of the Prensa Ibérica group, where the victim was seen crying with his two friends and Alves, leaving him behind without paying the slightest attention. This, apparently from the prosecution, would refute the fact that sex was consensual, as the actor never approached the young woman to ask why she was crying.
The prosecutor of the case also demanded the maintenance of the prison on the grounds that “there is sufficient evidence that Alves, who has been detained for a month, committed a crime of sexual assault and there is a serious risk of murder”. flight.” He noted that there were “multiple” indications that corroborate the version presented by the victim. According to him, the player could run because he has “high net worth” and “not enough roots in Spain”. Alternative measures proposed by the defense to ensure that the athlete is brought to justice when necessary He stressed that it was not enough.