Madrid. A Spanish court announced this Wednesday that it rejected the appeals against the parole of Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves, who was released from prison after serving 14 months of his four and a half year sentence for rape.
The Court of Barcelona “dismisses the appeals presented against the resolution that granted the release on bail of the convicted Daniel Alves,” announced the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia in a statement.
Alves, 40, was released on March 25 from the prison where he had been since the end of January 2023 after paying bail of one million euros ($1.08 million), while the appeals against his sentence to four years and a half in prison for rape.
The prosecution and the victim’s defense appealed against his provisional release from prison, citing the risk of escape, something that was rejected by the court, which withdrew Alves’s passport and imposed on him the obligation to appear in court weekly.
The former player of FC Barcelona, PSG and the Brazilian national team was sentenced in February to four and a half years in prison for having raped a woman in the bathrooms of a Barcelona nightclub at the end of 2022, when he returned from the World Cup in Qatar. .
The court also sentenced him to five additional years of probation, a restraining order against the victim for nine and a half years, and payment of compensation of 150,000 euros (about $163,000).
The sentence was appealed by both Alves’s defense, which during the trial requested his acquittal, and by the prosecution, which wants to stiffen the sentence. These appeals can take months to resolve.
After his entry into provisional prison in January 2023, Alves’ team at that time, Pumas de México, terminated his contract, and the right-back defender’s possible return to football is unknown.
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– 2024-04-19 02:40:45
