Spain court denies Brazilian star Dani Alves’ appeal to be freed on bail
MADRID — A Spanish court docket denied Dani Alves’ attraction on Tuesday to be freed on bail whereas the investigation of a sexual assault accusation towards the Brazilian soccer participant continues.
The court docket dominated that Alves was a flight threat and should stay in jail in the course of the investigation. A trial has not been set.
Alves was provisionally detained in January after being accused of sexually assaulting a lady at a nightclub on Dec. 30. He has denied wrongdoing and mentioned intercourse with the accuser was consensual.
A choose ordered him to be jailed with out bail after analyzing the preliminary probe by authorities and listening to testimony from Alves, the alleged sufferer and witnesses.
“Daniel Alves remains as innocent as he was before this ruling,” his protection staff mentioned in a press release. “His desire to leave Spain and elude the process did not, and does not, exist.”
Alves’ legal professionals filed the attraction saying the Brazilian agreed to show in his passport and put on a monitoring machine if he was freed. Alves would additionally report back to the court docket and to authorities as typically as required, together with every day, and wouldn’t go inside 500 meters (yards) of the accuser or her residence or office.
But the court docket dominated that these measures wouldn’t be sufficient to maintain the participant from probably making an attempt to flee contemplating he faces a number of years in jail if discovered responsible. It additionally mentioned there was appreciable proof {that a} crime may need been dedicated, and that Alves’ wealth may make it simpler for him to attempt to flee whatever the quantity of bail.
“Nothing would stop Mr. Alves from leaving Spain by air, sea or even land without documentation and reaching his country of origin, where he could stay knowing that he would not be delivered to Spain despite international arrest warrants or extradition orders,” the court docket mentioned.
Brazil doesn’t extradite its personal residents when they’re sentenced in different nations. Another former Brazil participant, Robinho, had a nine-year sentence for the rape of a younger girl in Italy upheld by a high Italian court docket final yr, however he stays free in Brazil.
The 39-year-old Alves can attraction once more whereas the court docket decides whether or not to arrange a trial.
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 potential punishments. A case of rape can obtain a most sentence of 15 years.
Alves gained 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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