The Dani Alves case has been “like a host with an open hand” for all those who have lived with him for many years. This is how Gerard Piqué feels, who has not yet overcome “the shock” that it has meant for him to see that his former teammate at Barça was arrested for allegedly raping a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub.
Alves has been jailed since the day he was arrested, in January. “I would be very hard on him, even more than justice if it is shown that what seems to have happened has happened,” Piqué assured in an interview with the program The Mon to RAC 1. “I would be totally inflexible with him,” he added, expressing his rejection of any form of abuse in society.
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Neither Alves nor Piqué were in the Barça dressing room when the alleged rape of the Brazilian occurred in the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub. The Brazilian was a member of the Mexican Pumas since he left the second stage at Barça in the summer and Piqué had retired weeks ago. They also coincided in the first season between 2008 (both arrived at the club the same summer) and 2016.
“It is a very complicated case, and for the colleagues who have known him, it is very screwed up,” he confessed. “We have gone into shock because we lived together a lot in the dressing room, we spent many hours and you saw him act. You would never think that he could act like that. You think you know the person and you don’t know him,” Piqué commented.