The times are not good for Dani Alves. While his defense works at forced marches on his new strategy to prove his innocence, the player is not going through a good personal moment. The Court of Barcelona agreed to keep the former Barça player Dani Alves in preventive detention without bail, accused of allegedly raping a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub on December 30 and since then each piece of information seems to complicate the situation more and deteriorate his image. The latest blow has been the public breakup of her wife Joana Sanz to which he responded with a desperate love letter that has not received the slightest sympathy from the model. Quite the contrary, the Canary Islander has fired at the Brazilian for making the letter public in the program “Y ahora Sonsoles” on Antena 3 TV.
But, while Joana definitively closes the door to a pardon and the victim of his alleged sexual abuse dismantles his defense by refusing to submit to a psychological examination paid for by the Brazilian, the player tries to spend the days in prison in the best way.
Alves has created “his own prison league”, where each team has different kits and there is a healthy rivalry. In fact, inmate requests for sportswear “quadrupled.” “The athlete is grateful to his module mates who received him very well. Dani plays soccer with the prisoners, talks to everyone, signs autographs, is in a good mood and totally confident in his innocence. And the inmates are delighted with his presence It has become a lucrative business, so much so that the officials in charge of controlling the entrances and exits from the prison have detected a significant traffic in FC Barcelona shirts signed by the Brazilian.
How does the business work?
As advances ElCaso.com, an inmate who has permission to move throughout the prison and visit all the modules -people who do services in the common areas, for example- they collect the Barça shirts that the families have given to the prisoners or that enter by parcel. This prisoner is in charge of taking them to module 13 of Brians 2, where Dani Alves is. The soccer player signs them and they return them to the inmate who has mobility throughout the prison. And he returns them to the inmates of the other modules, who take them out of the prison again and hand them over to their children, relatives and friends. But this management does not come free.
The intermediary who moves Dani Alves’ shirt from some of the Brians 2 modules to module 13 where the former FC Barcelona He collects his own commission, ranging from packets of tobacco to products from the prison commissary.
Without a doubt, Dani Alves has become a round deal for the smartest inside prison. Some benefits that they will be able to enjoy for a while since the footballer will remain imprisoned until a date is set for the trial that could take a year and a half to be held. In “extreme cases” provisional detention can be extended “up to a maximum of four years” although it is not the usual norm. The soccer player, however, faces a stay in prison that can be several months, waiting for his team of lawyers to request his release again until the trial is held.
The player will remain in provisional prison without bail because, according to experts, as he has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality and there is no extradition treaty with Brazil, it is feared that he will travel to his country and not return. A situation from which some did not take long to benefit.