There is already a date for the rape trial against Dani Alves. Section 21 of the Barcelona Court announced this Wednesday that a former FC Barcelona and Brazilian national team player will sit in the dock on February 5, 6 and 7, 2024. The first session will begin at ten in the morning.
The trial will take place almost a year after the events. Dani Alves is accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl in the booth of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30 to 31, 2022 and has been imprisoned in Brians 1 since January. The footballer faces a nine-year prison sentence requested by the prosecution for a crime of sexual assault with penetration. For the same facts, the private prosecution represented by the victim demands a sentence of twelve years in prison, the maximum penalty provided for a crime of rape. Furthermore, both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the victim are requesting ten years of supervised release for Alves and compensation of 150,000 euros for the physical and psychological consequences and the moral damages suffered by the victim, an amount that has already been recorded by the footballer in court. Although the parties explored the possibility of reaching an agreement in which Alves acknowledged the facts in exchange for paying compensation and obtaining a lower prison sentence, the attempt did not bear fruit. Until the day of judgment, however, there is time for this scenario to occur.
According to the prosecution’s indictment, the victim entered at around 3:42 a.m. into a reserved area called ‘Suite’ where there is a toilet and a sofa. There she agreed “unaware that it was a private area. At that moment, Alves “took her into the small bathroom in the hallway, closing the door behind them to prevent the woman from leaving there.” “When the victim saw In that cubicle she asked the defendant to let her out, but Alves refused, and he began to grope her, with a lascivious intention and a clear intention to satisfy his sexual desires,” she maintains.
The letter highlights that the victim, upon finding herself in that situation, “in that small bathroom with no possibility of exit due to the soccer player’s opposition and in the face of the violent attitude that he showed, felt shocked and lacked the ability to react, coming to feel that she lacked the air given the situation of anguish and terror at what I was experiencing”. This story was told by the victim first to two friends who accompanied her that night, to the security personnel and to those in charge of the nightclub, to the first of the Mossos d’Esquadra who approached the room and who by mistake recorded those first words of the young.
