Lula defends that Robinho serves time for rape – 03/11/2024 – Sport

President Lula (PT) defended, this Monday (11), that former football player Robinho serve a sentence for rape. The agent also said that this is an unforgivable crime.

The statement was made in an interview with SBT, recorded this Monday morning. Excerpts are being released throughout the day, and the full version will only air at night.

“A man, a young man who has money, a rich, famous young man, commits rape? And gang rape? And he thinks he didn’t commit a crime, he thinks he was drunk? Ah, it creates shame. Rape is an unforgivable crime. So, the person It has to be condemned, it has to be judged, it has to be condemned”, said Lula, when asked about the former player.

“Robinho has already been convicted in Italy and he was supposed to be serving his sentence, which will now be tried this month. I hope he pays the price for his irresponsibility, for being a young man who was luckier than 99% of young Brazilians, who He made a lot of money, became very famous. He didn’t need to do that to the girl”, he added.

The trial of the Italian government’s request for the former football player to serve a sentence in Brazil should take place on the 20th by the STJ (Superior Court of Justice)

The case will be judged by the Special Court of the STJ, which brings together the 15 most senior ministers of the court.

Convicted of gang rape, the former player was sentenced to nine years in prison, but is free in Brazil, whose legislation prevents the extradition of native Brazilians.

In November, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office argued that the Milan Court’s request for approval of the sentence should be accepted. According to Deputy Attorney General Carlos Frederico Santos, “all legal and regulatory requirements for the continuation of criminal execution were met.”

Robinho, now 40 years old, was initially convicted in 2017, appealed and had his attempts exhausted in 2022, with a final judgment.

According to the investigation in Italy, the athlete and five other Brazilians committed group sexual violence against a woman of Albanian origin in a nightclub in Milan in 2013.

Robinho has always publicly denied the crime. The Italian police, however, recorded conversations between the former athlete and his friends in which he confirms the victim’s unconscious state at the time of the crime. “That’s why I’m laughing, I don’t care. The girl was extremely drunk, she doesn’t even know who I am,” said the former player.

The recordings were part of the material used by the Italian Public Ministry in the process that convicted the Brazilian of gang rape.