Spanish court again denies Dani Alves’ appeal to be freed during sexual assault probe
MADRID (AP) — Brazilian soccer participant Dani Alves will stay in jail after a Spanish courtroom on Monday denied one other one in every of his requests to be freed on bail whereas an investigation right into a sexual assault accusation in opposition to him continues.
The Barcelona courtroom mentioned Alves stays a flight threat and may keep detained till the investigation concludes. The courtroom beforehand denied the same request by Alves’ defence workforce in May.
Alves was provisionally detained in January after being accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a nightclub in Barcelona on Dec. 30. He has denied wrongdoing and mentioned intercourse with the accuser was consensual.
A decide ordered the previous Barcelona defender to be jailed with out bail after analyzing the preliminary probe by authorities and listening to testimony from Alves, the alleged sufferer and witnesses. A trial date has not been set.
Alves’ legal professionals had tried to discredit testimony by the alleged sufferer and different witnesses by presenting safety digicam footage displaying that Alves and the sufferer had been flirting with one another on the nightclub. But the courtroom mentioned in its ruling on Monday that the flirting shouldn’t “in any way justify an eventual sexual assault.”
The legal professionals had reiterated that Alves was not a flight threat and would settle for any court-imposed measures, resembling delivering his passports and sporting a monitoring gadget, if freed on bail. They mentioned Alves and his household had plans to reside in Barcelona, however the courtroom dismissed the argument as a result of his kids had been solely registered as residents a couple of weeks in the past.
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 totally different attainable punishments. A case of rape can obtain a most sentence of 15 years.
The 40-year-old 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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