Football, group violence: for Robinho the Supreme Court confirms the sentence of 9 months
The judges of the Third Criminal Section of the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence of the Milan Court of Appeal in December 2020 against Robson de Souza Santos, aka ROBINHO, former AC Milan striker, to nine years in prison for group sexual violence against of a girl which took place on January 22, 2013 in a nightclub in Milan. Sentence confirmed, again at 9, also for his friend Ricardo Falco. The violence, according to the investigations, had been consumed by the former Rossoneri footballer, with five other people, four of whom are untraceable.
Calcio, the civil party lawyer: “Robinho will save his sentence, Brazil will protect the victims and not the guilty”
” The facts have been proven in the first instance, confirmed by the Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court has declared inadmissible the appeal presented by the accused. For us procedural justice has been done ‘‘. These are the words of the lawyer Jacopo Gnocchi, a civil lawyer, after the confirmation of the sentence to nine years in prison for group sexual violence against a girl which took place on January 22, 2013 in a nightclub in Milan. “Now the point is to understand what Brazil will want to do: we are confident that it will protect the victims and not the guilty ones and that you will serve the sentence,” he adds.
Football, Robinho’s defense: “Seriously unfair judicial epilogue”
“We are waiting to read the reasons for the sentence. I find this judicial epilogue seriously unfair.” The lawyer Franco Moretti, defender of the football player Robinho, told Adnkronos, after the confirmation of the sentence to nine years in prison for group sexual violence against a girl in January 2013 in Milan.
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