The first photos of Dani Alves after a year in prison: trial against him began

This Monday, February 5, the trial against the footballer began Daniel Alveswho is accused of sexual abuse of a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022.

Alves' lawyer, Inés Guardiola, asked the Barcelona Court to annul the case for sexual assault. In her defense, she pointed out that her rights have been violated because He was investigated for a month “behind his back” and has endured the “parallel trial” of public opinion.

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He also asked that Alves testify last. Thus, the footballer would speak next Wednesday afternoon. The arguments of his defense focused on detailing fundamental rights that he considers have been violated in the case, among them the presumption of innocence and a trial with all guarantees.

The footballer has been in preventive detention for a year for a crime of sexual assault. In addition, he faces a request from the Prosecutor's Office for nine years in prison accused of raping a 23-year-old girl in the bathroom of a private room. the discotheque

“It was an investigation behind his back,” said the lawyer, who highlighted that this prevented Alves from exercising his right to defense and, among other issues, from undergoing a test to prove that on the night of the events he was under the effects of the drug. alcohol.

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At the hearing, the first photos of Dani Alves after a long time in prison were revealed. “He never had the opportunity to defend himself effectively during the instruction,” Guardiola said.

The lawyer insisted that in this case Alves's presumption of innocence has been violated because he has been subjected to a “parallel trial.”through a “media campaign” and a “tendentious submission”, with a “constant and incessant” drip of information to present him as a “sexual aggressor”, causing the “social conviction” that he is guilty.

This parallel trial includes presumptions about his financial capacity, which according to the lawyer is not as comfortable as the press proclaims but, on the contrary, Alves suffers from a “stifled economic situation”: he has a debt of half a million euros with the Treasury, a seizure of 150,000 and its bank balance is 70,000 euros.

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Guardiola added that the investigating judge has been “contaminated” by the media and there has been a “flagrant” violation of defense rights. He added that he believes that Alves has not had a “fair” process or “with all the guarantees.”

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