Rape trial: Dani Alves testified, sentence within 20 days

The former Barça and Juve player remains in prison. In front of the judges he reiterated that there was no coercion, his lawyer invokes the authorities for the player’s alleged drunkenness

From our correspondent Filippo Maria Ricci

– madrid

Dani Alves returns to prison and there he will await the sentence of Court number 21 in Barcelona, ​​where the trial in which the former Brazilian footballer accused of rape is being debated. The judge has up to a maximum of 20 days to issue his verdict with the prosecution asking for 12 years in prison for Alves while the Prosecutor’s Office asks for 9. The Brazilian has been in the Catalan Brians 2 prison for over a year in preventive detention.

many changes

The trial lasted 3 days with 22 witnesses and 270 accredited journalists and ended this evening with the testimony of Alves, who in the 13 months that have passed since the date of the meeting with the 23 year old girl who reported him, the night between 30 and 31 December 2022 at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, ​​he changed his lawyer 3 times and even changed his version of the events of that night 5 times. It should be remembered that initially Alves had even denied having met the girl who reported him.

consenting relationship

Yesterday Alves, in tears during his deposition, placed everything on the girl’s consent, while his lawyer invoked extenuating circumstances in the name of his client’s alleged drunkenness and returned to ask for provisional release with the withdrawal of his client’s two passports. assisted, the Spaniard and the Brazilian, a measure denied by the judge due to the risk of flight, with Brazil not having an extradition agreement with Spain.



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