Spanish MP will appeal Daniel Alves’ rape conviction to toughen it up, say legal sources – 03/01/2024 – Sport

The Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office will appeal the rape conviction imposed by a Barcelona court on Brazilian football player Daniel Alves, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, in an attempt to toughen it up, a legal source said this Friday (1st).

The MP will try to increase the sentence received by Alves, who was found guilty by the court of having raped a woman in the bathroom of a nightclub in Barcelona, ​​at the end of 2022.

The sentence, released on Thursday last week, also imposed on the former player five additional years of supervised release, an order to remove the victim for nine and a half years and the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros (around 807,000 reais). at the current quote).

However, it was far from the nine years of prison requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the former Barcelona athlete, in preventive detention since January 2023.

Among the MP’s reasons for appealing the sentence are the application of the mitigating factor for “reparation of damage” due to Alves having deposited the 150 thousand euros in compensation since the instruction.

The Brazilian’s defense, which requested his acquittal, will also appeal the sentence.

Daniel Alves, 40 years old, was accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub on the night of December 30th to 31st, 2022.

According to the MP, the events occurred in a private area of ​​the house, where the athlete, who was with a friend, had met the woman, accompanied by a cousin and a friend.

After inviting them to drink champagne, Alves, who claims that the relationships were consensual, invited the young woman to enter another exclusive area where there was a small bathroom, which she was unaware of.

From then on, their versions diverged, but the magistrates considered it proven that, once inside, “the accused suddenly grabbed the complainant, threw her to the floor, preventing her from moving and penetrated her vagina, despite the complainant saying that No, I wanted to get out of there.”

The judges estimated “that the victim did not consent and that there is evidence, in addition to the complainant’s testimony, to conclude that the rape was proven”, the court indicated in a note.