The Section 21 of the Barcelona Court has announced this Wednesday the date of the trial against Dani Alvesaccused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 30, 2022. A trial that will take place on February 5, 6 and 7, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m..
From the hearing itself they agreed to send the former FC Barcelona player to trial. All of this after an order that was made public this November, when the court confirmed the resolution that the instructor issued when ending the investigation and decreeing the opening of the trial against the player.
A trial in which The Prosecutor’s Office will ask for a total of nine years in prison for the former Brazilian player, three years less than what the private prosecution requests.led by Ester García, who he asks for 12 years in prison. Furthermore, they also demand a compensation of 150,000 euros due to the physical and psychological consequences of the attack.
Regarding the compensation itself, it was the victim who initially refused to receive said money because his only objective was for justice to be done and for the footballer to pay for what happened. A decision that he later changed, exposing through a document his desire to revoke his client’s initial intention. The request was accepted by the magistrate of the case, Concepción Cantón, in just 24 hours.
On the other hand, from the defense of Dani Alves will try, once again, to prove that the sexual relations they had in the bathroom of the nightclub were consensual.also asking for absolution.
In provisional prison since then
Alves meet this January a year in the Brians penitentiary (first it was in the Brians 1 module, and then it went to Brians 2), where it is located in provisional prison waiting for said trial to be held despite the continuous attempts by the footballer’s defense to release him, which they have rejected from the investigation and from the Barcelona Court itself.
What’s more, in the last attempt, in June, the Court concluded that none of the maneuvers proposed by Alves’s defense could lead to his release, neither a new declaration, nor the analysis of the security cameras, nor the registration. of his children in Barcelona.
The evidence confirms the young woman’s story
And the thing is, a multitude of evidence has been found against Alves, such as fingerprints found both on the victim’s body and those found in the toilets of the VIP area from the Sutton nightclub, which Not only do they not distort, but they confirm the young woman’s story.
