Dani Alves, the trial of the former Barcelona footballer for rape begins. He is accused of sexual assault against a young woman in the bathroom of a nightclub in 2022.
Prosecutor asks for a 9-year prison sentence and the payment of 150,000 euros in damages. The footballer's defense lawyers, Ines Guardiola and Miraida Puente Wilson, ask for Alves' acquittal, arguing that it was not rape and that the relationship was consensual. A plea bargaining of the sentence is not ruled out.