This Friday, former Barcelona player Dani Alves will likely spend his last card before being prosecuted for allegedly sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona. It is expected today that the Barcelona Court will open a window in which his lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, will seek his re-release, and that the private prosecution carried out on behalf of the victim, by lawyer Ester García, will persist. Upon this There is not enough reason for the Brazilian star to get out of prison on January 20.
The investigation of the case is actually over. It remains only to the forensic expert and an expert appointed by the defense to conduct his psychological report to determine the state of health of the victim and, according to his version, the consequences that have continued since the night of 30-31 December. Allegedly, the former football player raped her in the bathroom of a private room in a nightclub on Tuset Street in Barcelona.
Alves changed his statement again in his final statement before the judge (In his first interrogation, he changed the story three times, based on the evidence against him), and this time he admitted to having sex by penetration before the DNA test, which showed that the semen in the woman’s vagina was his own, but stated his “consent”. The former football player assured that he had not confessed before, as he wanted to hide the infidelity and save his marriage to model Janet Sans.
Claim and refusal
This statement, made on April 17, did not help Alves free. A few days after this interrogation, defense submitted a new briefing in court demanding his release and that he denies the existence of a risk of escape because, according to him, he has elements to defend himself and proclaim his innocence. His lawyer also submitted a 200-page report on footage recorded by the security cameras of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona.
With image analysis lThe defense tried to “compare” the footage of the nightclub with “the story of the complainant and his two friends”, assures the lawyer. The young woman stated that she and her friend shared a table in a VIP area (approximately 20 minutes) and that she was very scared, but that she entered the bathroom “despite this”, according to the defense. Alves had arrived “two minutes ago when he was seen talking intensely to his friends”.
In this way the intention According to him, to “refute” a “microcosm of panic and terror” that cannot be seen in images.. According to Martell, those moments in the VIP area were “typically sexual courtship” and “no sign of fear or environmental intimidation.” The allegations refuted this thesis and reiterated that it was sexual assault.
forced confession
However, on May 9, the judge decided that the former player should remain in prison. The tool underlined Alves “He presented several statements and gave a different version in each” and in the last one, he said he had no “option” but to admit that he had had consensual sex because the remnants of semen found in the victim’s vagina belonged to him. Togada also argues that there is still a risk of escape and that there is “not sufficient reason to change” the provisional sentence. The defense will try to convince the Audiencia de Barcelona court on Friday that his client will not flee and will come to justice.