This Tuesday, the Provincial Court of Barcelona sent to trial Daniel Alvesformer player of FC Barcelona and the Brazilian National Team, who is accused of a crime of sexual assault against a young woman in a nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022. The court confirmed the prosecution of the former soccer player after concluding that both the statements of the victim and the witnesses, Like the expert evidence, they support sufficient evidence to send him to trial for the crime he is accused of.
According to the Spanish media, From today, a period of five days opens for the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution to present their briefs, in which they will detail their request for a sentence for the former Juventus winger. Of course, the Barcelona Court has not yet set an exact date for the trial, which will be reported in the coming days.
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After the request for annulment of the athlete’s defense, due to leaks in the case, the court magistrates indicated that the causes that affect “public figures” they have one “undoubted media impact“and that opinions can be made in the media that violate the presumption of innocence”in its extra-procedural aspect“, and They concluded that this does not affect the judicial process.
It is worth remembering that Alves’s main defense strategy consists of recognizing that sexual relations did exist with the victim, but that they were always consensual. This is the last letter the Brazilian has left, after even his ex-wife, Dinora Santana, and her two children have turned their backs on him in recent days.
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Dani Alves has been in provisional prison since January
The former ‘Canarinha’ defender has been in provisional prison since January 20. Since that date, his defense has repeatedly requested that he be released, something that the Barcelona Court has rejected. In June, the judges pointed out that none of the alternatives that the former player’s legal team had promoted served to set him free.
According to the author who kept him in prison in recent months, the evidence collected in the investigation by the Mossos d’Esquadra, especially the fingerprints found at the scene of the events (the toilets in the VIP area of the Sutton nightclub) , “Not only do they not distort, but they confirm” the victim’s accusation.
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