One month has passed since that Monday, January 2, when the Brazilian soccer player
Dani Alves
testified in the Central Unit for Sexual Assaults of the Mossos d'Esquadra in Barcelona, after being accused of rape for an event that occurred a few days earlier in a nightclub. of the Spanish city.
While his lawyer works to grant him probation and Justice moves forward in search of clarifying what happened, the 39-year-old defender
is being held at the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center and a good future does not bode well for him
, at least in the short term.
The entrance to the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center, where Dani Alves is being held.
Pumas de México, his last club, terminated his contract and demanded a million-dollar compensation.
In turn, he lost sponsorship contracts with four brands (Puma, Hygia Saúde, Ethika and 1xPartners) and different versions pointed out that his wife,
Joana Sanz,
was going to ask for a divorce after the accusation.
Problems and more problems, except for the latter.
The 29-year-old model came out to deny the rumors.
"I'm not going to leave him alone at the worst moment of her life," she
responded to a question from
Paula González, from the
Telecinco
Spain program 'Fiesta'
, upon leaving prison.
It is that Sanz, contrary to the rumors, went to visit the former Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint Germain footballer this Sunday.
He arrived with Bruno, a friend and personal chef of the Brazilian, and they visited him approximately between 6 and 6:50 p.m. (Spanish time).
When they left, they asked her about her husband's state of mind and the answer was clear:
"What do you think?"
In addition, they asked her if Alves had refused to have an intimate meeting with her, as the reporter Leticia Requejo had reported on 'The Ana Rosa Program'.
"That's a lie,
" she said flatly.
The words of a prison visitor
With the only condition that his face not be seen, a visitor to the prison gave statements to the Spanish press and said that
Dani Alves "is separated because it is an exclusive case, right?, as he is a well-known athlete",
began saying the man.
"Four officials accompany him to the patio. They have him escorted and apart, alone, so that there are no problems with the other prisoners," he
added.
When asked about whether the Brazilian receives differential treatment, he did not dare to give a clear answer but he hinted that this is obviously the case.
"I can't tell you, but from what I heard here at the gates, yes,"
he pointed out.
The prosecution's request
The entrance to the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center, where Dani Alves is being held.
The Prosecutor's Office opposed this Monday that the Barcelona Court release Dani Alves on provisional release, considering that the risk of escape persists and that the indications that he committed the alleged violation for which he entered prison on 20 September remain. January.
According to sources from the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Prosecutor's Office presented its report to the Barcelona Court to oppose the release of the footballer and rejects the precautionary measures to withdraw his passport, daily appearances in court and the use of a telematic bracelet that proposes his defending.
Alves' defense appealed before the Barcelona Court the order of the investigating judge to send him to pretrial detention for allegedly raping a young woman at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 30, for which the Court must decide in the coming days If you release him, once you have the reports from the Prosecutor's Office and from the private prosecution.
To date, as judicial sources have indicated to the international agency
EFE
, the private prosecution representing the victim has not yet sent its brief to the Barcelona Court to position itself on the appeal filed by the Brazilian player on 30 December. January.
In that appeal, the player's lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, put forward various arguments to dismantle the flight risk on which the judge who is investigating the case in court number 15 of Barcelona relied to send the footballer to prison, on the past 20 from January.
The player's defense alleged, among other reasons, that Alves voluntarily went to testify before the Mossos, that he resides with his wife in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) and that he has personal, family, social and business roots in the Catalan capital , which undermines their flight risk.
He also argued that the player no longer has the "economic muscle of periodic income" that the instructor attributed to him, after the Mexican soccer club Pumas, in which he played, terminated his contract and after the loss of other contracts sponsorship, publicity and image that had subscribed with different brands.
In addition, in the brief presented before the Barcelona Court, the legal team of the former Barcelona player questioned the evidence that led the judge to send Alves to prison, mainly using the videos of the images prior to the moment in which the young woman and Alves they entered the private bathroom of a private room at the Sutton nightclub, where he allegedly raped her.
According to the letter, the videos show that before that moment Alves and the victim, who went to the disco with a cousin and a friend, were in a "playful and festive way, surrounded by many people in an open space", which "it is far" from the scenario of "environmental intimidation".
Subsequently, Alves' lawyer pointed out in the appeal, the recording denied that the footballer closed the bathroom door in which the alleged rape took place: first he is the one who enters the premises and, two minutes later, the young woman does, " without Dani Alves clearing the way for him".
However, the public ministry opposes the Barcelona Court releasing Alves, imprisoned in the Brians 2 prison in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires (Barcelona), considering that the risk of flight does persist and that the the indications that he committed the alleged violation.
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