“I think the end of Dani Alves is regrettable. (…) In the final judgment someone will look at you and say: ‘Hey, Dani Alves, you had everything to be the king of fried chicken, the biggest guy in the world.’ world, rich, famous, generous. What have you done with your life, man?'” This is the reflection of the veteran sports journalist Emilio Pérez de Rozas about the former FC Barcelona footballer, Dani Alves that you can hear in the second installment of the podcast ‘On Offside’ of the signatories of this article, the journalists Guillem Sánchez and JG Albalat, and produced by EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA and Prensa Ibérica Studio. The first chapter, broadcast last Friday, January 12, explored the fall of a myth and in this second the ins and outs of the Brazilian star’s arrest, his entry into prison and the ‘No Callem’ protocol to avoid sexual assaults that he put in place are revealed. the Sutton nightclub, where the alleged rape occurred on the night of December 30 to 31, 2022, is underway.
Days after the Mossos d’Esquadra began the investigation, Dani Alves, who had returned to Mexico to join the ranks of the Pumas club, receives a call from Spain informing him that his mother-in-law, the mother of his wife, the model Joana Sanz, had died. The moment he steps on Spanish soil, his main lawyer, Miraida Puente Wilson, she contacts him and, after the funeral, the footballer travels to Barcelona to meet her. The player always denies what happened at the nightclub. With this premise, the lawyer contacts the Mossos and they meet on January 20, 2023 in her office first thing in the morning. He refuses to testify, they arrest him and take him to the police station. From there he is taken to the Barcelona courts, where the judge, after taking statements from him, the victim and his two companions, orders his imprisonment due to the evidence against the footballer and the risk of escape implied by his economic level.
Five versions
In that judicial statement, Alves offers three versions. As the evidence corners him, he changes his story. He first explains that he didn’t know the girl. When telling him that she had seen them dancing at the nightclub, he claims that he did know who she was and that she had entered the bathroom when he was relieving herself, without doing anything. When the judge brought out that there was rest of semen in the cabin, the player stated that the woman had performed fellatio on him.
Days later, the forensic experts revealed that they had found traces of his DNA in the victim’s vagina, which gives rise to a fourth version: the Brazilian admits that he had had complete sexual relations, although he specifies that they had been consensual, something that since the At first, the complainant assured that this was not the case, since she always maintained that he had intimidated and forced her. This same week it became known that the defense included another new element in its provisional brief: that Alves had been drinking that night.
First night in Brians
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Alves had arrived at prison that same January 20 “stunned, depressed, very out of place, very calm…”, according to EL PERIÓDICO journalist Juan José Fernández. “In fact, that first night he is asked if he wants to have dinner. He does not want to eat any food. The only thing he consumes is a small bottle of water that he had bought,” recalls the journalist.
From there, the bad news for the player accumulates: the Mexican club Pumas fires him. Alves is transferred for security reasons from the Brians 1 prison to the nearby Brians 2 prison and it comes to light that the victim had waived compensation (he later agreed to claim it, as is his right). The lawyer of the Clara Campoamor association, Victoria de Pablo, states: “Why do the victims in these crimes of sexual assault with soccer players renounce compensation? Effectively, so that they are believed.”