Brazilian footballer Dani Alves convicted of raping a woman in Spain nightclub.
In the course of the trial that lasted for three days this month, the Brazilian football star, who is forty years old, denied any misconduct.
Dani Alves, a former football player for both Barcelona and Brazil, was found guilty by a Spanish court on Thursday of raping a lady in a nightclub in Barcelona in the early hours of December 31, 2022. The incident occurred in the early morning hours of that day. He received a prison sentence of four years and six months when he was sentenced.
During a trial that lasted for three days this month, Alves, who is forty years old and is considered to be one of the most accomplished football players in the history of the sport, repeatedly denied any wrongdoing whatsoever. Appealing the decision is a possibility.
A court in Barcelona came to the conclusion that Alves had sexually attacked his victim in a high-end nightclub in Barcelona. This occurred after Alves had enticed his victim in a lavatory located in the VIP part of the venue. Prosecutors from the state had requested that Alves be sentenced to nine years in jail, but the solicitors who were representing his accuser wanted him to serve twelve years. Now he has been sentenced to jail for 4 years and 6 months, also he will have to pay one hundred and fifty thousand euros as compensation.
His legal representatives requested that he be found not guilty or, if he was found guilty, that he be sentenced to one year in prison and compensated the victim with fifty thousand euros.
The arrest of Alves took place on January 20, 2023, and he has been incarcerated ever then. Due to the fact that the court deemed him to be a flight risk, his requests for bail were denied. When Brazilian citizens are sentenced in other nations, the country does not extradite them to defend themselves.
She danced with Alves and freely entered the nightclub toilet, but later on, when she wanted to leave, he would not allow her leave. The victim, whose identity is being safeguarded and kept secret, explained to state prosecutors that she danced with Alves. In addition to slapping her and insulting her, she claimed that he coerced her into engaging in sexual encounters against her will.
In the beginning, Alves denied having any sexual contact with the victim. Later, he admitted to having sexual contacts with the victim, which he claimed were consensual. He stated that he had initially refrained from admitting to the encounter in an effort to preserve his already existing marriage.
It was determined by the court that the woman did not give her consent, and it stated that there was evidence that proved that she had been raped that was not based on the testimony of the victim.
During the course of the trial, his defense centered its efforts on attempting to demonstrate that Alves was under the influence of alcohol when he first encountered the woman.
In response to an upswell of protests following a gang-rape case that occurred at the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016, Spain rewrote its legislation in 2022 to make permission, or the lack thereof, key to defining a sex crime. The Alves case was the first high-profile sex crime that occurred since the legislation was rewritten.
