Why Dani Alves has not yet been released and will have to spend the weekend in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse in Barcelona

Although he was granted conditional release until the final sentence, Daniele Alves He will have to spend a further three nights in prison and extend his stay to 14 months and two days. The thing is he still cannot pay the bail of one million euros which was imposed on him by the Court of Barcelona.

Last Wednesday, great expectations were generated around the Brian’s Prison 2 of the Catalan city. The counting of the hours that saw the former Brazilian footballer released after more than a year in prison had begun. It was known to everyone that his defense was trying in every way to collect the million euros that would have granted him parole before the weekend. But the mission ended up failing.

Initially, His compatriot Neymar was said to pay the full amount. However, at the last minute, the footballer’s father opposed the conclusion of the operation.

With these complications, according to the Spanish international agency EFE, Alves’ defense, led by Inés Guardiola, did not post the million euro bail before 3pm this Friday (Spanish time).waiting period and for which an extension of one hour had been granted.

By not obtaining the corresponding financing, The former Barcelona player will remain in Brians 2 prison for the whole weekend, as the offices responsible for this type of task will not reopen until next Monday. They begin work at 9am, the exact moment Alves’ lawyers aspire to deposit the money once and for all into the court’s account.

The biggest difficulty that arises in obtaining financing is this The former Carioca full-back keeps all his bank accounts seized because his ex-wife Dinorah Santana claimed support for her two children. This is how it is evaluated Alves’ total assets would amount to approximately 50 million euros in addition to valuable properties.

The Brazilian player has been in prison since January 2023 and is sentenced to four and a half years for raping a young woman in a nightclub, in December 2022.

The conditional release that was granted to him, with two votes in favor and one against from the magistrates, will last until the final sentence. Because of this His Brazilian and Spanish passports were confiscatedadded to that They imposed an obligation on him to appear once a week to testify..