the first night of Daniel Alves arrested

the spanish newspaper El Periódico published details about the Daniel Alves’ first night stay at Brians Penitentiary Center 1, on the outskirts of Barcelona. According to the newspaper, the news of the arrival of the athlete on the night of last Friday (20), spread quickly in the place and he would be downcast and without uttering a single word, as informed by agents of the establishment.

The Brians 1 detention center is usually very busy and is dedicated in large part to pre-trial detainees. Shaken, Daniel Alves collected fingerprints and took pictures shortly after his arrival. This Saturday (21), the expectation is that the player’s family will take clothes to the place, which has a series of visits planned for new prisoners.

A doctor will have to do a check-up, open a file and write down the treatments he performs, if any. The protocol also calls for a tuberculosis test. In the afternoon, he will have meetings with jurists and prison educators.

The Spanish newspaper also published some details about the Spanish penitentiary. According to El Periódico, module 3 has not had working televisions for days. Other complaints refer to a problem with the flow of hot water in some of the showers in the place. Daniel Alves will have to use the center’s collective showers, where not all of them work with hot water. The delay in repairs has caused dissatisfaction and the problem with water heating had been reported by the penitentiary union 24 hours before the Brazilian arrived.

THE CASE

Judge Maria Concepción Canton Martín ordered the player’s arrest last Friday (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. Pumas, from Mexico, announced last Friday that Daniel Alves’ employment contract with the club will be terminated for just cause.

The accusation refers to an episode that allegedly took place at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona. The athlete, who defended the Brazilian national team at the World Cup in Qatar, would have put his hand between the underwear of the woman who made the complaint. She looked for her friends and security at the club after the incident.

The security team at the nightclub called the Catalan police, who took a statement from the victim. She also underwent 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”, on 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 neither knew her.

In the statement, however, according to the media in Spain, the athlete claimed to have had consensual relations with the woman, whose name was not revealed. The alleged sexual crime allegedly took place in a unisex bathroom in the VIP area of ​​the nightclub.

According to the Spanish newspaper El Periódico, the Brazilian locked, assaulted and raped the woman in the bathroom in the VIP area of ​​the nightclub. He denies the accusations. The judge argued in the decision to arrest the player that there was a risk of flight, since the athlete no longer lives in Spain and has the financial resources to leave the country at any time. Furthermore, Spain does not have an extradition agreement with Brazil.