Defense files appeal to remove Daniel Alves from preventive detention

The defense of Daniel Alves presented to the Court of Instruction 15 of Barcelona this Monday (30) the appeal for the player to respond to his accusations and the process in freedom. According to the newspaper El Periódico, the extensive resource has more than 20 pages. He responds to accusations of sexual assault against a woman in the early hours of December 30 at a Barcelona nightclub.

Preventively arrested since the last day 20, the right-back, with passages through Barcelona, ​​São Paulo, Brazilian national team, among other clubs, Dani Alves denies the accusations. The player is in reclusion at Brians 2 Prison.

The request will be transferred to the Hearing of Barcelona, ​​which will decide whether or not to accept the appeal. The young woman’s defense will also be notified and will be able to present new arguments within five days, if it so wishes.

According to the newspaper The world, the expectation is that Justice will accept the defense’s request within 30 days. The deadline takes into account the bureaucracy for the analysis of the request and the legal procedures of the action Dani Alves is preventively arrested because, according to judge Maria Concepción Canton Martín, who analyzed the case, there was a risk that the player would flee Spain, since who do not have housing in the country.

Last Friday (27), according to information from the Spanish television channel Antenna 3the lawyer Cristóbal Martell, one of those responsible for defending Daniel Alves, would suggest precautionary measures to ask for the end of the player’s preventive detention, such as the use of an electronic bracelet or the removal of his passport, which would avoid a possible escape from Spain.

DANIEL ALVES CASE

Judge Maria Concepción Canton Martín ordered the arrest of Daniel Alves on January 20. He was arrested while giving testimony about the case of sexual assault against a woman in the early hours of December 30. The Public Prosecutor’s Office asked for the 39-year-old athlete’s preventive detention, without the right to bail, and the holder of the Investigative Court 15 of Barcelona accepted the request, ordering the detention.

The accusation refers to an episode that allegedly took place at the Sutton nightclub, in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The athlete, who defended the Brazilian team at the World Cup in Qatar, would have locked, assaulted and raped the whistleblower in a bathroom in the VIP area of ​​the nightclub, according to the newspaper El Periódico. She looked for her friends and security at the club after the incident.

The security team at the nightclub called the Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra), who took a statement from the victim. A camera worn on a police officer’s uniform accidentally recorded the victim’s first version of the case, corroborating what she said in the official statement. The woman also underwent a medical examination at a hospital. Daniel Alves left the scene before the police arrived.

According to the Spanish press, the contradiction in the right-back’s testimony was decisive for the country’s Public Ministry to ask for arrest and the judge to accept. In early January, the player gave an interview to the program “Y Ahora Sonsoles“, from Antena 3, in which he confirmed that he was in the same nightclub as the woman who accuses him, but denied having touched the complainant without her consent and said that he did not even know her.

In the statement, however, according to the media in Spain, the athlete stated that he had been with the woman, but without sexual intercourse. Later, he admitted to the sexual act, but claimed that the relationship was consensual. According to the radio ser chain, images from the internal surveillance of the place confirm that Daniel Alves spent 15 minutes with the woman in the bathroom. Collected material found traces of semen both internally and on the whistleblower’s dress.

Pumas, from Mexico, announced that Daniel Alves’ employment contract with the club was terminated for just cause.