In the last days, Daniel Alves It has been news, but not because of his actions on the courts. The Brazilian footballer and former defender of the FC Barcelona He has been pre-trially detained after being denounced by a young woman for sexual harassment and rape. The measure has been so severe that the Pumas de Mexico, team in which he was a member, has terminated his contract. Find out what is known and what happened to the veteran player.
was accused at the beginning of January by a young woman, whose name has been withheld for security reasons, and last weekend he was detained in custody.
THE COMPLAINT OF RAPE AGAINST DANI ALVES
On Tuesday, January 2the young woman in question formalized the rape complaint against Dani Alves, an accusation that she had already made at the time the incident occurred. This was last December 30 at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona.
At that time the security protocol was activated when such cases occur. The complainant was isolated, her statement was taken but the footballer had already left the premises.
Alves during his arrest in Barcelona (Photo: @cuartoscuro / Instagram)
THE ACCUSATION OF THE WOMAN WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY DANI ALVES
According to the testimony of the victim, who is 23 years old, Alves would have approached her in a private environment of the disco while each one shared with different groups. Then he approached when she entered the bathroom and that is where the attack would have occurred.
According to the complainant, the Brazilian began to speak rude words to her -one of them, “you are my little whore”-, at the same time that he asked her to give him fellatio. She refused and in that struggle is when she would have put her finger in her intimate areas. “I resisted but he was much stronger”said the young woman.
DANI ALVES HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF BAIL TO BE RELEASED
The Prosecutor’s Office requested entry into preventive detention last Friday, January 20 and without bail for the athlete, to which the private prosecution, exercised by the complainant, has been added. The investigating judge finally decided to send him to prison without bail alleging the seriousness of the facts and a possible flight risk. The Brazilian has resided in Mexico since mid-2022when he signed for the Pumas of the Aztec league.
The prosecutor’s office took away the possibility of paying bail to go free due to the possible risk of flight when working in Mexico (Photo: EFE)
THE RELEASE OF DANI ALVES BEFORE HIS ARREST
The footballer sent a video on January 5 to the Antena 3 program “Y ahora Sonsoles” where he denied the accusation. “I would like to deny everything”Alves exposed just at the beginning of his message in the space presented by Sonsoles Ónega.
“I was in that place, I was with more people enjoying. Everyone that knows me knows that I like to dance. Enjoying, but without invading the space of otherss”he said then for the Ónega program.
And added: “When you choose to go to the bathroom, you don’t have to ask who is in the bathroom to go”he said before denying knowing the woman: “I’m very sorry, but I don’t know who that lady is. I don’t know her name… I don’t know her. I never saw her throughout my life”he remarked.
On the other hand, the footballer’s entourage has confirmed that Alves was at the aforementioned Barcelona venue, but “for a short time” and that “nothing happened”.
THE WIFE OF DANI ALVES MAKES A REQUEST TO THE PRESS
Given the media stalking that the Spanish woman has received at her residence as a result of the accusation suffered by her husband, the model Joana Saenz spoke on her social networks where he asked for more empathy with the press because he has also just lost his mother, who passed away a week ago.
“I ask that the media outside my home please respect my privacy at this time. My mother passed away a week ago. I’ve only just begun to assume that she’s gone to be tormented with my husband’s situation.”, he expressed through a “storie” on Instagram.
“I have lost the only two pillars of my life. Have a little empathy, instead of looking for so much news in other people’s pain, thank you ”, she pointed out.
