This Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Barcelona has recently filed a claim against the investigative court number 15 in Barcelona. The defense has appealed, asking for an end to preventive detention. The public ministry maintains that the reasons for the temporary imprisonment on 20 January remain valid: there is a persistent flight risk, and therefore Alves should continue to stay in Brians 2 prison. The defense argued that Alves faced a rape complaint from a 23-year-old woman who said the former footballer assaulted her in the Sutton nightclub bathroom on the night of 30 to 31 December. The attorney contended that Alves would not flee to Brazil if released, and urged replacing the precautionary prison with other measures, such as recovering his passport. A briefing was submitted to seek release at the defendant’s request, shortly after he testified a second time in the Barcelona court.
In this second testimony, Alves presented the fourth version of the events in Sutton’s bathroom, admitting it was the first instance of penetration — DNA evidence supported the victim’s account — while stressing that it was consensual.
After hearing this second statement and reviewing the appeal from the defense, the prosecutor believes nothing has changed. The flight risk remains, and to safeguard the trial, it is appropriate to maintain the preventive detention originally ordered by the judge and later upheld by the Barcelona Court.
four versions
Alves has supplied four different accounts of these events. The first three were rejected by the Mossos d’Esquadra investigation. In the fourth version, presented during the second statement on 17 April, the football player said that after dancing with the victim at a VIP table in Sutton, he offered to go to a bathroom, she agreed to have sex, and in that small, camera-free space, what followed was: she sat on the toilet, knelt before him and performed oral sex. He then sat on top of her and penetrated.
woman’s version
The young woman told Mossos two days after the events and again in court on 20 January that Alves did not approach her because he offered sex, but because he was an insider. In a private room, while her friends were nearby, she began signaling to get his attention, and he finally agreed to meet in that area where cameras did not reach. The victim stated that she wished to leave once she realized it was a bathroom, but Alves blocked the exit by closing the door.
Later, in her complaint to the authorities, Alves sat on the toilet and forcibly pressed her. She asked him to stop and pleaded to be released, but he refused. He pulled her to the floor, grabbed her by the neck, struck her, and tried to force a violent sexual act. She said she resisted and asked him to stop. The confrontation moved toward the sink and the toilet, and she alleged that he eventually penetrated her until completion.
evidence & context
The victim’s account aligned with later findings by Mossos: semen detected in an intravaginal sample, a knee scratch documented in the medical report, and fingerprints located in the Sutton bathroom. Police analysis indicated seven fingerprints belonging to the victim in the bathroom, with none attributed to Alves. Legal sources consulted for this report note that the victim’s fingerprints were found on the sink, wall, and toilet.