One year and two months after his entry into prison, Dani Alves left the Brians 2 prison in Barcelona last Monday, where he was imprisoned after the sexual assault of a young woman on December 30, 2022. The footballer was convicted last February to four years and six months in prison, but the National Court of Barcelona granted provisional freedom to the former Barcelona Football Club player with a bail of one million euros that, finally, the athlete managed to raise. Now, once free, the Brazilian is once again in trouble with the law, this time in his native country.
The conviction of Dani Alves has been one of the most talked about topics in recent weeks. Apart from the four and a half years in prison, the Barcelona Court also imposed five years of supervised freedom, removal and incommunicado detention from the victim for nine years and six months, as well as compensation of 150,000 euros and payment of the cost of the trial. . However, this week the athlete was released on bail, something that has generated a large number of reactions, the vast majority against his freedom.
Now it has become known that the former Futbol Club Barcelona footballer continues to have problems with the law, this time in Brazil. The Brazilian media UOL reported this Friday that Alves will be tried in the coming weeks for plagiarizing a song written by two Brazilian composers. According to the aforementioned media, the artist Giuliano Matheus and his son Thiago Matheus have accused the former soccer player of having appropriated one of his songs.
It was in 2020 when Alves released a song titled Avião, within the framework of a project for the United Nations with the aim of “fighting misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic”, as UOL assures. Renowned singers such as Carlinhos Brown, Fábio Jr., Roberta Miranda, Sandra de Sá and Nando Reis participated in the recording of the song. In the complaint between father and son, both claim authorship of the lyrics, in which the former soccer player would not have participated.
“Dani Alves fraudulently excluded the names of the true creators. In other words, to carry out a campaign against fake news, the UN used a work of false authorship,” claimed Giuliano Matheus and his son Thiago. For his part, the father explained that he traveled to Europe in 2016 at the invitation of Alves himself and detailed that the song was written by himself in honor of his grandfather, something that moved the former soccer player.
Be that as it may, Alves’s defense denies these accusations to As. “The work was designed solely and exclusively by Daniel Alves (…) The lyrics of the song Avião are not even remotely related to the tribute to someone’s grandfather,” they say, adding that father and son want to “illicitly enrich themselves” by costa of the footballer, convicted of sexual abuse of a young woman.
Regarding this case, the Brazilian will have to respond to the Brazilian justice system via videoconference, since his two passports have been withdrawn due to the sexual abuse he committed at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona. Joana Sanz’s still husband is totally prohibited from leaving Spain, so he must solve his problems with the Brazilian justice system from here.
