After five days full of tension, Dani Alves yesterday managed to raise the million euros that the Barcelona Court asked of him as bail to be released provisionally. The footballer was sentenced last February to four and a half years in prison accused of having sexually assaulted a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub.
To the surprise of the prosecution and society in general, the court issued bail and gave the player the opportunity to get out of jail until the appeals against the sentence are processed. This judicial movement shocked the victim and thousands of social media users, who opened a national debate about whether Justice is for everyone or only for ‘the poor’.
Accompanied by his lawyer Inés Guardiola, Alves left the Catalan prison at Brians 2 yesterday and went to the mansion he has owned for more than ten years in Esplugues de Llobregat. It should be noted that the athlete had to hand over both of his passports (the Spanish and the Brazilian) to prevent his possible escape and that he has to appear in court once a week.
Furthermore, the Barcelona Court has prohibited Joana Sanz’s ex-partner from establishing any type of communication with the victim, as well as from approaching her within a perimeter of less than one kilometer.
The La Sexta Aruser@s program has echoed Alves’ release from prison and has shared different curiosities, such as that the one from Brazil has given away all of his clothes to some of his prison companions (with whom he had a great relationship). relationship) and that he has collected his watch, his wedding ring and his cell phone upon leaving the penitentiary center.
The presenter of the Atresmedia magazine has not tried to hide his astonishment at Alves’s performance before leaving prison: “That thing about giving clothes away to friends, to mates… it seems like he’s never going to come back again and theoretically, anyway, when there is a (firm) sentence he will have to return, to see if he asks for the tracksuit again.”
For her part, Angie Cárdenas has given her opinion and has stated that she can understand that the accused does not want to have anything that reminds him of prison and that when he re-enters he will be given new clothes.
