Dani Alves was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for raping a 23-year-old girl. The Barcelona Court considers it proven that Alves sexually assaulted the victim and that he also did so using violence in the toilets of a booth at the Sutton nightclub, in that same city.

The ruling has a clear pedagogical value because it places at the center of its reasoning the framework of “only yes means yes” included in the sexual freedom law, says Elcano.