Today in Spain the cherry trees have suddenly been depopulated. We knew that money opens doors, even those of cells. We knew that raping can be very cheap, the law of only yes means yes. We knew that justice is the same for everyone, except if you have money. We already knew all that. But having three magistrates from the Barcelona Court, a smart lawyer and a man who believed he had been touched by God rub it in our faces as if we were idiots, well how can I put it… Well, it pisses off. Wow, it pisses off.
If this tremendous fall of the cherry hurts us, if we read it as an insult to the victims of sexual violence, imagine what the woman whom the footballer raped in the bathroom of a nightclub must feel right now. For her there are no palliatives.
The convicted rapist Alves is released from prison because the rich Alves can afford to pay 1 million euros. He didn’t get fame to pay for his innocence. He has managed to make money provide him with an easier and shorter path to his freedom. This man has estimated his assets at 55 million, currently on stand-by, frozen, so that he will not even pay the million bail, but will do so in the name of Neymar’s father.
Of course, everything conforms to the law. A law that no one understands from common sense, which is not precisely that of Justice. Alves should be very grateful to former Minister Montero and his lawyer. First, because the law of only yes is yes reduced the penalty for sexual assault with penetration, which became from 4 to 12 years (previously, from 6 to 12). And the second for deciding to pay 150,000 euros, with that little change being worth to the Brazilian as a mitigating circumstance to repair the damage and, consequently, as a significant reduction in the sentence. Four and a half years in prison for rape. And Alves leaves a quarter completed. Cheap cheap.
The Brazilian will go home to wait for the final sentence. They take away his passport. According to the only magistrate of the court who has disagreed with the provisional release, he could escape, he has money or friends with money. I suspect that it would be better for you to wait for the sentence to be final and enjoy the prison benefits soon. But who knows if it is in his divine mind to risk it again.
