Football: incarcerated since January, Dani Alves will be tried for rape

2023-11-14 16:19:45

After prison, Dani Alves will have to go to court for the alleged rape of a woman in the toilets of a Catalan nightclub on December 30, 2022.

The Barcelona High Court has in fact confirmed the order established at the end of the investigation and decided to dismiss the former PSG defender, incarcerated since January 20 at the Brians 2 penitentiary center, in the Barcelona region. . The statements of the victim and witnesses, as well as the expert opinions, constitute sufficient evidence to send the former Auriverde side to trial for the offense of sexual assault (criminal category including rape in Spain).

“At present, we consider that there are sufficient rational indications to accept the opening of the oral trial in the terms requested by the public prosecutor and the private prosecution,” explains the order.

The prosecution and the public prosecutor now have five working days to present their conclusions. A prison sentence of 8 to 10 years should be requested against the Brazilian. On the defense side, we insist on the consensual nature of the relationship and we consider that the principle of the presumption of innocence has been violated given the resounding media coverage of the case.

Alves’ lawyer is even asking for the proceedings to be canceled and for the proceedings to be dismissed… The trial date will then be set.

Already abandoned by many relatives, including his partner Joana Sanz, Alves will no longer be able to count on the support of his ex-wife Dinora Santana. She has even just confided to As that she has filed a complaint against the footballer to prevent him from speaking to their two children.

Dinora Santana had agreed to settle with her family in Spain and send Victoria and Daniel to school there to facilitate her ex-husband’s request for release. After the process failed, she said she felt used by the player’s lawyers.

“His children haven’t seen him since May 6. Since then, he doesn’t want to know anything about us. They are his children (…) Nobody could defend him, who was going to defend him? His family ? He has no credibility. Then, they told me to defend him (…) I take medication and for me, he is dead, she said. What I want is for him to leave me alone and to leave the children alone. Let him sort out his life…”