Dani Alves indicted in sexual assault case in Spain
MADRID — Dani Alves denied wrongdoing after being indicted by a choose in a sexual assault case in Spain on Wednesday.
The Brazilian soccer star advised the choose in a Barcelona courtroom that he was not in settlement with the findings of the investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted a girl at a nightclub in Barcelona on Dec. 30.
Alves was indicted after being formally knowledgeable by the choose of her findings. Prosecutors will now specify the fees towards him. A trial date can be set for later this yr or early in 2024.
Alves was additionally ordered to put aside 150,000 euros ($164,000) to pay his alleged sufferer if he’s finally discovered responsible and ordered to pay damages.
Lawyers mentioned that the previous Barcelona defender spoke briefly earlier than the choose on Wednesday. He has mentioned that the intercourse was consensual.
Alves has been in custody since January awaiting the conclusion of the investigation. He is anticipated to stay in custody awaiting the trial. His bail requests have been denied as a result of he’s thought-about a flight danger. The participant had supplied to show in his passports and put on a monitoring machine.
A choose ordered Alves to be jailed after analyzing the preliminary probe by authorities and listening to testimony from the alleged sufferer, witnesses and Alves.
Alves’ attorneys unsuccessfully tried to discredit testimony by the alleged sufferer and different witnesses by presenting safety digital camera footage on the nightclub. The courtroom has mentioned that any flirting shouldn’t “in any way justify an eventual sexual assault.”
Under Spain’s sexual consent legislation handed final yr, sexual assault takes in a big selection of crimes from on-line abuse and groping to rape, every with completely different attainable punishments. A case of rape can carry a most sentence of 15 years.
The 40-year-old Alves received 42 soccer titles, together with three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and two Copa Americas with Brazil. He performed in his third World Cup final yr in Qatar.
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