1st statement was recorded by chance on a police camera

THE preventive detention decreed against Daniel Alves last Friday had as a backdrop the player’s sequence of contradictions in his statements. The first testimony collected from the victim was accidentally recorded and ended up helping to support the complaint, since the 23-year-old woman’s speeches were repeated in the other moments in which she was heard by the Catalan Justice.

In favor of the victim there are also hearings from witnesses who reaffirmed in a convincing way the sexual assault suffered by the woman. Recordings from security cameras and materials collected at the crime scene help in the investigation in a forceful way.

According to the newspaper El Periódicoa member of the Catalan police team that came to the aid of the victim of the sexual assault at the Sutton nightclub, in Barcelona, ​​had the camera in his uniform on and accidentally recorded the woman’s speeches about Daniel Alves.

In Catalonia, as well as in São Paulo, with Operation Olho Vivo, police officers carry cameras in their vests that record their actions. Comparing the accidental recording with the victim’s first official statement provided the necessary robustness for the progress of the investigation, the process and consequent arrest of Daniel Alves.

In the recording, the victim appears crying desperately and repeating that Daniel Alves physically and sexually assaulted her. The woman was also said to be ashamed of the situation and feeling guilty for having gone to the bathroom with the player.

In her following testimonies, the woman sexually assaulted by Daniel Alves showed recurrent concern with the possible disclosure of her identity. Spanish law prohibits any placement of images and personal data of the complainant.