The Spanish Court overturns the former Alves Dani bracket, a rape conviction | Football news
Alves was found guilty in February 2024. For rape women at the Spanish nightclub in December 2022.
Former Barcelona player Dani Alves won a appeal against sexual abuse conviction while the Spanish court canceled the verdict.
Alves was found guilty in February 2024. For raping a woman at a nightclub in December 2022 and sentenced to four years, six months in prison. Former Brazil and Barcelona defender has denied injustice during a three -day trial.
This court ruled on Friday that there was no “insufficient evidence” that would exclude Alves’ assumption of innocence.
The trial of Alves has been the first random case since Spain in 2022 reversed its laws to submit consent to the central to define sexual crime, in response to the rise of protests after the rape rape during the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona in 2016.
A law that is popularly known as “only to mean that” the law defines the consent as an explicit expression of the person of a person, which clearly lets know that silence or passivity does not correspond to consent.
However, the four appeal court judges, headquartered in Barcelona, unanimously ruled to cancel the conviction. In their verdict, they wrote that the prosecutor’s testimony “particularly different from” evidence of videos recorded before the woman and Alves entered the toilet where she said he forced her to have sex without her consent.
Alves, who is now 41, was detained in prison from January 20, 2023 to March 2024. When he was released after paying $ 1.2 million for bail while waiting for his appeal. He also handed over his passports, and prosecutors were arguing against release with bail for a possible risk of flight.
Prosecutors wanted his prison sentence to nine years, while the victim’s lawyer wanted to stay behind bars for 12 years.
This decision could complain about the Spanish Supreme Court in Madrid.
Alves was one of the most successful players of his generation and won a dozen titles with elite clubs, including Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain. He also helped Brazil win two Copa Americas and an Olympic gold medal at the age of 38. He played on his third World Cup, the only main title he did not win, 2022. He played for Barcelona from 2008-16, helping the team to win three Champions Leagues and six Spanish leagues, and briefly held in the club in 2022.
He was with the Pumas Mexican club when he was arrested. Pumas immediately terminated the contract.
