Brazilian footballer Dani Alves was taken into custody in Barcelona on Friday as part of an investigation into him for alleged sexual assault, Catalan regional police told AFP.
"
He came this morning to the police station in Les Corts
", a district of Barcelona, where "
he had been summoned.
He has been taken into custody and is on his way
” to the Barcelona Courthouse, said a spokesman for the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police.
According to a judicial source, he was to be heard by a judge.
On January 10, a Barcelona court announced that it had "
opened an investigation into an alleged offense of sexual assault following the complaint presented by a woman against a football player
", without mentioning the player's name.
But a source familiar with the matter had confirmed to AFP that it was indeed Dani Alves.
This woman, who filed a complaint on January 2, accuses the 39-year-old player of touching, said the regional police.
According to the local press, the alleged facts took place in a nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30 to 31.
In a message sent to Spanish channel Antena 3 on January 5, the 39-year-old denied any criminal conduct and said he did not know the complainant.
Former player of FC Barcelona, Juventus Turin and Paris Saint-Germain, Alves spent a few days of vacation in Barcelona after participating in the World Cup in Qatar with the Brazilian selection and before returning to his current club Pumas de Mexico.
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