Former Barcelona and PSG defender Dani Alves was sentenced to 4 and a half years in jail for sexually assaulting a lady outdoors of a Barcelona nightclub in December of 2022. Moreover, he should pay the sufferer €150,000.
He can even be positioned on 5 years of probation upon launch, and a nine-and-a-half-year restraining order can even be enforce.
“The sentence considers that it has been proven that the victim did not consent, and that there is evidence, in addition to the testimony of the plaintiff, to consider the rape proven,” the court said in a statement.
The sufferer had alleged that Alves took her into a rest room within the VIP part of the membership earlier than forcing her to have intercourse with him regardless of repeated pleas to be let go.
In keeping with a good friend of Alves’ who was there that evening, Alves drank wine and whiskey previous to heading out to the nightclub. Whereas on the membership, Alves and a lady have been dancing and reportedly displaying “chemistry.” In keeping with the good friend’s account, the lady appeared superb after she and Alves returned from the lavatory.
The Brazilian nationwide workforce participant was arrested the subsequent month, and continued to alter his story as extra proof appeared. First, he mentioned he didn’t know the sufferer, then mentioned that he met her however they didn’t do something within the rest room. As soon as organic proof got here again, Alves mentioned that she consensually gave him oral intercourse, then maintained that the intercourse was consensual, and lied on account of not wanting his spouse to search out out about it.
In keeping with the sufferer, she willingly danced with Alves and went to the lavatory with him. She mentioned that she wished to go away, and he wouldn’t let her, slapping her within the face, insulting her, and raping her — which Alves denied throughout trial.
“If she wanted to leave, she could have left, she was not obligated to be there,” he said during his testimony.
Alves initially was dealing with as much as 9 years in jail if discovered responsible. His attorneys informed reporters that Alves plans to enchantment his sentence.
“We are satisfied as the sentence recognizes what we’ve been saying all along: That the victim was telling the truth and that she suffered,” the sufferer’s lawyer, David Saenz, informed ESPN. He added that his workforce would look into if the sentence corresponds to the severity of the crime.
Alves had been enjoying for Pumas UNAM in Mexico, however had been dropped from the workforce following the arrest.
