From the Netflix killer to the “horror doctor”: what the “celebrity prison” where Robinho is locked up is like

Former striker Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a sexual abuse crime committed in 2013 in Italy. After the first ten days of confinement, it was reported that the former Real Madrid and AC Milan player left the state of isolation From now on he shares an eight square meter cell with another inmate in Penitentiary 2 in Tremembé.

The former Santos and Real Madrid player had been convicted in Italy in 2017 for the gang rape of a young Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub four years earlier. In January 2022, after three requests, you received the final sentence. And on March 21, the Superior Court of Justice ordered his effective imprisonment in his country since Brazil does not allow the extradition of natural citizens.

There are 283 men imprisoned in Tremembé, which has the capacity to house 348 inmates. It is located in the State of San Pablo.

Tremembé Penitentiary Unit 2 is known in Brazil as “the famous prison”. It is there that Brazilian justice sends those convicted in high-profile cases. This is the case of Alexandre Nardoni, one of the protagonists of the infanticide that arrived on Netflix. The man has been accused of throwing his five-year-old daughter from the fifth floor, in a case that shocked the country.

Also housed there is Dr. Roger Abdelmassih, known as “the horror doctor”, who was the world’s most wanted sex criminal and sentenced to 278 years in prison for molesting and raping more than 30 women. With a profile more similar to that of Robinho, Edinho, Pelé’s son, was also detained in Sao Paulo prison for drug trafficking.

Despite this, one could say that it is more like a “VIP prison” as inmates are destined for that place where they receive better quality care and other benefits such as music lessons and football and chess tournaments.

Inmates have access to a library and a garden. Furthermore, now the former Real Madrid player will be able to participate in manual work workshops, where school chairs and tables are built which are then sold by an official Foundation whose objective is social reintegration.

In this new scenario, from now on Robinho will be able to receive weekend visits from relatives and friends, having submitted the documentation required by the Internal Regime.

The Robinho case

The former player, who emerged in Santos, was sentenced in three degrees by the Italian Justice, to nine years in prison, for the rape of an Albanian woman with four people at the Sia Café bowling alley in Milan.

The European country’s Ministry of Justice requested the extradition of Robinho, 40, but Brazil refused because the legislation does not allow it for its citizens. However, the Court of Sao Paulo accepted his request to serve his sentence in the country.

Another Brazilian, Ricardo Falco, was also sentenced to nine years in prison.