Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves offers to turn in passport, wear tracking device
MADRID — Brazilian soccer participant Dani Alves has agreed to show in his passport and put on a monitoring machine if he’s let out pending the sexual assault investigation towards him, his attorneys mentioned in an enchantment filed to a Spanish courtroom this week.
Alves was provisionally detained in January after being accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a nightclub on Dec. 30. A choose ordered the veteran participant to be jailed with out bail after analyzing the preliminary probe by authorities and listening to testimony from Alves, the alleged sufferer and a witness.
Alves has denied any wrongdoing.
In the enchantment obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Alves supplied to report back to the courtroom and to authorities as typically as required, together with every day, and to not depart Spain. He wouldn’t get inside 500 meters (yards) of the accuser or her house or work place, and wouldn’t talk together with her in any matter. The enchantment mentioned he would conform to put on a tool permitting authorities to continuously monitor his whereabouts to ensure he complied along with his obligations.
The enchantment mentioned Alves would pay bail within the quantity established by the choose, along with giving up his journey paperwork to authorities. The choose had denied Alves bail partially as a result of he was deemed a flight threat.
Alves’ attorneys, which incorporates the identical one who labored for Lionel Messi in his tax fraud case, claimed that the accusations alone made by the alleged sufferer weren’t sufficient to immediate his detention with out bail.
They mentioned there have been inconsistencies in her testimony, together with when she mentioned she was afraid of Alves and his buddies on the nightclub although safety cameras confirmed that she and her buddies had been in a “festive” approach.
They additionally level to photographs that confirmed that the accuser was not compelled into the toilet the place she claimed to have been assaulted.
Alves initially denied having intercourse together with her however later admitted to a consensual sexual encounter.
The attorneys mentioned within the enchantment that he initially denied that he had intercourse together with her as a result of he needed to guard his spouse and kids.
The accuser has reportedly relinquished her proper to hunt monetary compensation from Alves if he’s ultimately discovered responsible.
Under Spain’s sexual consent legislation handed final yr, sexual assault takes in a wide selection of crimes from on-line abuse and groping to rape, every with totally different doable punishments. A case of violent rape can obtain a most sentence of 15 years.
The 39-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.
Alves had his contract with Mexican membership Pumas terminated after his arrest. He was detained after getting back from Brazil to Spain and agreeing to speak to authorities concerning the case. His attorneys mentioned Alves has additionally misplaced sponsorships due to his arrest.
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