Revealing testimony in trial against Dani Alves: 'He did not act as usual'

The young woman who accuses Daniel Alves to rape her at the nightclub Sutton of Barcelonain December 2022, pointed it out to the director of the venue and to her friends when the footballer passed by her when leaving the premises: “It was him.”

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This was indicated this Tuesday by the director of Sutton in his appearance as a witness in the second session of the trial, in section 21 of the Barcelona Court, in which Alves He faces a prosecutor's request for nine years in prison for sexual assault, a penalty that the private prosecution increases to 12 years.

The director of the nightclub, who explained that Alves was a regular customer of the establishment, He detailed that he found out what happened when he saw the girl crying, so he approached her and her two friends: “It took a lot for him to tell us what had happened,” he said.

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When this man was talking to the three young women, Alves passed in front of him, walking straight, without saying goodbye, to leave the nightclub, at which point the victim told them that “it had been him,” he said.

According to the person in charge of Sutton, The young woman was “quite upset” and she repeated that she wanted to go home and, upon their insistence to know what had happened, she finally told them that she had been the victim of a sexual assault.

“She told me that they were not going to believe her,” recalled the witness, who also stated that the young woman commented that she had voluntarily entered the bathroom where the rape occurred, but that once inside she wanted to leave and “couldn't.” .

Along the same lines, a nightclub manager has testified that the victim cried a lot and It was “pretty bad”so they activated the protocol and called the emergency number 112.

Furthermore, when the courtroom manager asked the young woman if she wanted to file a complaint, she said no because no one was going to believe her, as her two friends and other witnesses have corroborated throughout the trial.

This witness has also indicated that Alves was a regular customer of the nightclub and has revealed that, in his opinion, That night the footballer “was not as usual” since he believes that “either he had drunk or had something, he was not acting as usual”after which the defense, which raises the consumption of alcohol as a mitigating factor to reduce a possible sentence, has chosen not to ask him any questions.

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In the trial, an assistant of Sutton that he healed the wound on the girl's knee and that he heard her talking to her friends while they were waiting for the arrival of the Mossos.

The witness stated that He heard how the victim told her friends that she “knew what she was going for,” although she later made it clear that she “didn't want to” and that she finally “regretted being there.”.

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With information from EFE.

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