Daniel Alves hires criminal expert to try freedom

Daniel Alves’ defense announced this Tuesday (24th) the appointment of a new lawyer specialized in criminal law to assist in the preparation of the player’s defense. Barcelona on the night of the 31st of December. He denies the aggression and, after two previous versions, claims that there was a relationship, but that it was consensual.

The new lawyer’s announcement comes two days before the deadline for the defense to file an appeal seeking the player’s freedom. The deadline is this Thursday (26).

The immediate objective of the defense is that the arrest – preventive and without the right to bail due to the risk of fleeing – is replaced by a less serious measure, such as the withdrawal of the passport or the ban on leaving Spain.

In the statement released to the press, Spanish lawyer Miraida Puente Wilson states that the appointment of specialist Cristóbal Martell Pérez-Alcalde is given “for the good progress of the defense in this period of investigation”.

More revealing, the lawyer implies that Alves does not intend to assume the crime and that the strategy will continue to be the declaration of innocence. At the end of the note, she writes that the defense “will restore their honor and dignity and, in short, will demonstrate their innocence of the facts they are accused of.”

Pérez-Alcalde is a famous lawyer in Catalonia, responsible for representing several important national politicians and also for the Barcelona club and for Leonel Messi, Dani’s former partner.

Miraida is a generalist lawyer, specializing in foreign citizenship procedures, visas and investments for foreigners, in addition to having experience with family cases and divorces. For years she has provided services in the companies and commercial activities of Dani Alves and his partner and ex-wife, Dinorah Santana.

Since Friday (20) the player has been in the Brians prison, on the northwest outskirts of Barcelona, ​​pre-trial detained for risk of flight. His contradictions during his testimony, in which he offered different versions as new evidence was exposed to him (description of a tattoo and images from security cameras, for example), were one of the reasons why Judge Maria Concepción Canton Martín decided to arrest him .