The young woman who accuses Dani Alves of rape left the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub crying “heartbroken” and telling her friends that the footballer had hurt her “a lot”, but initially she was reluctant to report him while repeating: “I just want to go to home, you’re not going to believe me.
It may be of interest to you: Dani Alves alleges ‘economic drowning’ in sexual abuse trial: why?
This was reported this Monday at the Barcelona Court, through tears, by one of the two friends who accompanied the victim at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30, 2022, who added that Alves had a “slobbery” attitude. “and that he also touched her and the other girl in the group.
As of today, former FC Barcelona player Dani Alves sits on the bench in section 21 of the Barcelona Court in a trial for sexual assault, in which the Prosecutor’s Office requests nine years in prison for the footballer and the private prosecution brought by the victim twelve.
According to the witness, when the 23-year-old victim left the bathroom of the booth where she had entered with Alves, she couldn’t stop crying “heartbroken” and “very nervous,” so she asked her friends to leave the nightclub. while insisting that the footballer had done him “a lot of damage.”
Dani Alves completed a year in prison.
Photo:
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
The witness added that the complainant just wanted to go home and that it took “horrors” for her and her friend to convince her to report: “I just kept repeating, they’re not going to believe me, they’re not going to believe me.”
Read here: Mourning in football: last surviving player dies from the 1958 World Cup final in Sweden
The days after the events, he added, the young woman remained in shock, still not wanting to report, and currently she continues to suffer anxiety, she barely leaves the house, she feels watched and has lost the “joy” that characterized her, as she becomes obsessive “with everything.”
According to what he said, the victim and his two companions agreed to enter the booth where Alves was with a friend after he invited them twice, through a waiter, to have a drink with them in that VIP area. from the Sutton nightclub, which has a small private bathroom.
Former Brazilian FC Barcelona player Dani Alves, accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022.
Photo:
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
Already in the presentations, she detailed, Alves had a “slobbery” attitude, to the point that he tried to touch her butt and the other friend’s private parts.
When Alves, first, and then the victim, went to the bathroom in the private room, the witness reported that they were out of sight for a few minutes, at which time she went to the bathroom and, upon leaving, received a message on her cell phone. message from her other friend telling her that the complainant “needed to leave.”
The three agreed to meet in the club’s closet, where she claims she found her friend “crying inconsolably” and repeating “she has hurt me a lot,” while touching her legs with a nervous gesture. “I had never seen her like this in my life,” she confessed.
Dani Alves and his last message
Photo:
Instagram: Joana Sanz / Dani Alves
He explained that the victim, who at that moment gave the impression of being “dissociated”, only asked to go home while insisting “they are not going to believe me.” Finally, it was she who, days later, convinced her to report it.
In fact, that same night the nightclub applied the protocol and the victim was taken to a hospital, although she insisted to her friends that she did not want to tell anyone what happened, “not even her mother.”
Also: Egan Bernal showed his face: clearly and bluntly, the option of winning the Tour Colombia
To questions from Alves’ defense, the witness, who is a lawyer, has answered on many occasions with “I don’t remember”, to which the president of the court, Judge Isabel Delgado, has warned her that she could not avoid the answers. alleging lack of memory: “if you remember something, you have the obligation to say it, you must tell the truth.”
Dani Alves sitting in the dock moments after the trial against him began.
Photo:
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
The witness, who broke down crying several times during her interrogation, excused herself by stating that she was very nervous at that time.
When asked by the Prosecutor’s Office, the young woman specified that at no time did she see Alves staggering, a question in which the public prosecutor’s office intends to contrast the defense version that the footballer was drunk, which could benefit from a mitigating circumstance reduce his eventual sentence.
SPORTS
With information from EFE.