2023-05-09 22:59:14
Football player Dani Alves’ request for release has been rejected for a second time by the judge investigating the alleged rape of a woman. “The 15th district of Barcelona investigative court has rejected the request for release requested by the defence”, announced the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, which means that the player, aged 40 since Saturday, will remain in prison. .
Alves’ lawyers, in detention since January 20, 2023, had asked for their client’s release on April 20, while the Brazilian had reiterated a few days earlier during a hearing at his own request that he had consensual sex with him. the complainant.
The “risk of flight is unthinkable”
Alves, who had this time provided video evidence allowing the two versions to be compared, had already been refused a first request for release pending trial. The court had highlighted “the high risk of absconding” of Dani Alves “linked to the high sentence which may be imposed on him in this case”, the “severe indications” incriminating him and his “enormous financial means which could allow him to leave Spain at any time”.
The advice of the Brazilian believe for their part that the “risk of absconding is unthinkable” and proposed the possibility of a deposit as well as the withdrawal of his two passports (Spanish and Brazilian) to reassure the judge. But the magistrate on Tuesday rejected this request for release as well as all the intermediate measures (deposit, withdrawal of passport, electronic bracelet) to keep the player in prison.
Dani Alves, then under contract with the Mexican club Pumas, is accused by a young woman of having raped her at the end of December in the toilets of a fashionable nightclub in Barcelona. He has been incarcerated since January 20 in the Brians prison complex, located about forty kilometers from Barcelona.
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