The Brazilian footballer Daniel Alves He was sentenced this Thursday to four and a half years in prison by a court in Barcelona that found him guilty of having raped a woman in the bathrooms of a nightclub in that Spanish city at the end of 2022.
The judges considered it “proven that the victim did not consent and that there is evidence, in addition to the testimony of the complainant, to understand the rape as proven,” the court said in a statement, two weeks after the end of the trial.
The magistrates imposed an additional five years of supervised release, a restraining order from the victim for nine and a half years and the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros (about $162,000).
The help of the Neymar family
Neymar crying with Dani Alves.
It has been known that Alves' finances are not the best since the judicial process began and he was left without the contracts to which he was accustomed.
In the midst of this panorama, the Brazilian portal UOL stated that it was Neymar's family that gave him a hand at this time. It indicates that the 150,000 euros that “helped mitigate his sentence for rape” were paid “with the help of Neymar's family.”
This financial outlay called “mitigation to repair the damage caused” was essential to reduce the sentence taking into account that the Spanish Prosecutor's Office proposed 9 years in prison and the victim's defense demanded 12 years.
The money was even deposited before the trial “in the court account so that it could be delivered to the victim regardless of the outcome of the sentence.”
It was not the only contribution from Neymar's entourage towards his friend and former teammate on the Brazilian team. “Neymar's family also lent Gustavo Xistoone of the oldest legal representatives of Neymar Sr.'s companies.”
In previous statements, Neymar's own father admitted to having helped Dani Alves financially at the moment.
The case
Dani Alves was accused of having raped a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30 to 31, 2022. According to the Prosecutor's indictment, the events occurred in a reserved area of that premises. in which the athlete, who was there with a friend, would have coincided with the woman, who was accompanied by a cousin and a friend.
After inviting them to champagne, Alves would have invited the young woman to enter another exclusive area where the small bathroom was, which she did not know about. From then on, their versions differed, but the magistrates have considered it proven that, once inside, “the accused abruptly grabbed the complainant, threw her to the ground and, preventing her from moving, penetrated her vaginally, despite the fact that the complainant said that No, he wanted to leave.”
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