D-Day is approaching for Dani Alves: tomorrow the sentence will be known, what punishment he could receive if he were guilty of sexual violence

16 days have passed since Monday 5 February when the trial against Dani Alves for sexual assault began and the Court of Barcelona sued this Thursday to the former player to inform him of his ruling in the case: if found guilty, he could receive a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.

According to judicial sources, section 21 of the Court of Barcelona He summoned the player at 10.30 in the morning and will be taken to court in a police van from Brians prison, where he was remanded in custody just over a year ago.

The summons caused surprise in Spain, where the court’s decision was expected to be delayed even further. Indeed, The expected date for the sentence was only the first days of March. For this reason some media do not exclude that the Court’s appeal is, in reality, to inform him of his decision regarding the request for provisional release made by the player’s lawyer, Inés Guardiola, at the end of the trial, which took place between 5 and 7 February.

In addition to Alves, they will have to appear before the Court the defense lawyers of the former Barcelona player and the private accusation made by the victimto pronounce the sentence.

For the case, The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for nine years in prison for the Brazilian, accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl in the bathroom of a booth at the Sutton bar in Barcelonaon the night of December 30, 2022.

For its part, the private prosecution, carried out by the lawyer Ester García, He asks for twelve years of imprisonment and the same compensation as the Prosecutor’s Office, of 150 thousand euros.

The player’s defense, which denies the violation, He asked for acquittal or, alternatively, a one-year prison sentence for sexual assault.

The key points of Dani Alves’ statement

• “I met with my friends (three) to go and eat at the Clínic Tavern. We arrived around 2.30pm. At first we just wanted to eat, but we hadn’t seen each other for a long time and it didn’t happen until to 1 a.m. “We ordered five bottles of wine and a bottle of Japanese whiskey.”
• “I drank two bottles of wine and a glass of whisky. After leaving the restaurant we went to Nuba, we spent a while drinking a round of gin and tonic. After leaving there we took the car back to the car park, Bruno was driving because I had been drinking a lot and I couldn’t drive.”
• “After Nuba we went to Sutton with Bruno. We arrived around 2.30 in the morning.”
• “They escorted me to table six.”
• “I didn’t specifically ask for reserved six. I asked to move to seven, without any impediment.”
• “There’s only one bathroom next to table six. I’m a Sutton regular and I always have that table available, so I don’t have to walk across the club to go there.”
• “The door was open.”
• “We got to the booth, started drinking and dancing with Bruno for a while.”
• “The first two girls came and stayed there dancing for a while.”
• “Then they invited the three girls, the complainant and her friends.”
• “They didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. They arrived, they started greeting us. A conversation started, we were moved, we talked to each other. I’m a very close person, but with respect.”
• “I think they knew who he was.”
• “We were dancing, interacting.”
• “We were already closer, she started dancing closer to me, rubbing her parts against mine. A typical disco dance, twerking. A little closer dance.”
• “He put his hand back and started touching my parts.”
• “She said yes to go to the bathroom, I didn’t have to insist.”
• “I told her I was going to the bathroom first and waited a while, thinking she wasn’t coming, that she didn’t want to. And when I opened the door I practically ran into her at the door.”
• “She knelt in front of me and started giving me Fellatio. I pulled down my pants and sat on the toilet.”
• “I had my back pressed against my back.”
• “Fellatio was pretty much the entire intercourse. Afterwards he sat in front of my legs, then he went to ejaculate and I ejaculated out of his sex.”
• “I didn’t slap her or throw her to the ground. I’m not a violent man.”
• “He didn’t tell me he didn’t want to have sex.”
• “He never told me he didn’t want anything.”
• “I never saw the complainant and her friends again.”
• “When we left the club, I had too much to drink. My wife was sleeping in bed.”
• “It’s the same thing I said in the second one. In the first one I didn’t say Fellatio because I thought my wife couldn’t forgive me” (Alves cries).
• “I found out in the press that they were accusing me of rape. My world collapsed.”
• “I was practically ruined because they blocked my account in Brazil and broke all my contracts.”