The young woman who accuses of rape Daniel Alves came out of the bathroom of the nightclub Sutton crying “heartbroken” and telling her friends that the footballer had done her “a lot of harm”, but initially she was reluctant to report him while repeating: “I just want to go home, you're not going to believe me.”
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This is what he said this Monday in the Barcelona Court, through tears, one of the two friends who accompanied the victim in the nightclub Sutton of Barcelona on the night of December 30, 2022, who added that Alves He had a “slobbery” attitude and also touched her and the other girl in the group.
The former player of FC Barcelona Dani Alves He sits as of today on the bench of the 21st section of the Barcelona hearing in a trial for sexual assault, in which the Prosecutor's Office asks for nine years in prison for the footballer and the private accusation brought by the victim for twelve.
According to the witness, when the victim, 23 years old, left the bathroom of the private room where he had entered with Alvesshe couldn't stop crying, “heartbroken” and “very nervous,” so she asked her friends to leave the club while insisting that the soccer player had done her “a lot of harm.”
Dani Alves completed a year in prison.
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
The witness added that the complainant just wanted to go home and that it took “horrors” for her and her friend to convince her to report: “I just kept repeating, they're not going to believe me, they're not going to believe me.”
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In the days after the events, he added, the young woman remained in shockstill not wanting to report, and currently continues to suffer from anxiety, she barely leaves the house, she feels watched and has lost the “joy” that characterized her, as she becomes obsessive “with everything.”
According to what he said, the victim and his two companions agreed to enter the booth where he was Alves with a friend after he invited them twice, through a waiter, to have a drink with them in that VIP area of the nightclub Suttonwhich has a small private bathroom.
Former Brazilian FC Barcelona player Dani Alves, accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022.
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
Already in the presentations, she detailed, Alves had a “slobbery” attitude, to the point that he tried to touch her butt and the other friend's private parts.
When Alvesfirst, and the victim, then, went to the bathroom in the private room, the witness has reported that they lost sight of them for a few minutes, at which time she went to the bathroom and, upon leaving, received a message on her cell phone her other friend who told her that the complainant “needed to leave.”
The three agreed to meet in the club's closet, where she claims she found her friend. “crying inconsolably” and repeating “he has hurt me a lot”, while with a nervous gesture he touched his legs. “I had never seen her like this in my life,” she confessed.
Dani Alves and his last message
Instagram: Joana Sanz / Dani Alves
He explained that the victim, who at that moment gave the impression of being “dissociated”, only asked to go home while insisting “they are not going to believe me.” Finally, it was she who, days later, convinced her to report it.
In fact, that same night the disco The protocol was applied and the victim was transferred to a hospital, although she insisted to her friends that she did not want to tell anyone what happened, “not even her mother.”
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To questions from the defense of Alves, The witness, who is a lawyer, has responded on many occasions with “I don't remember”, to which the president of the court, the magistrate Isabel Delgado, He warned him that he could not evade the answers by claiming lack of memory: “if he remembers something, he has the obligation to say it, he must tell the truth.”
Dani Alves sitting in the dock moments after the trial against him began.
EFE/ Alberto Estévez
The witness, who broke down crying several times during her interrogation, excused herself by stating that she was very nervous at that time.
To questions from the Prosecutor's Office, The young woman has specified that at no time did she see Alves staggering, a question in which the public prosecutor's office intends to contrast the defense's version that the footballer was drunk, which could benefit from a mitigating circumstance to reduce his eventual sentence.
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With information from EFE.
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