The trial against the footballer Daniel Alvesaccused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the disco Sutton of Barcelona in December 2022, started at 10:32 a.m. with the processing of preliminary issues of accusations and defenses.
Since this Monday, the former FC Barcelona player has been sitting on the bench in section 21 of the Barcelona Court, which has reserved three days – until Wednesday – to judge the footballer, for whom the Prosecutor's Office requests nine years in prison and 12 the private accusation brought by the victim.
The first session of the trial has begun with the processing of prior allegations, which allows accusations and defenses to present to the court the last-minute allegations and requests that they consider appropriate, from the order of the statements. to requests for annulment of the investigation process.
Alves has been in preventive detention since January 20, 2023, when the Mossos d'Esquadra detained him in his lawyer's office after a 23-year-old girl reported him for raping her. night of December 30, 2022.
The footballer has been transferred from prison in a police van and has remained in the cells of the Court until Mossos agents have taken him to the room where the trial is being held.
On his way to the courtroom, the agents of the Barcelona Court have taken the footballer through unusual channels -not because of the route they usually take the rest of the prisoners-, with which Alves has avoided passing in front of the numerous journalists who, behind a security cordon, were awaiting his arrival at the hearing room.
Likewise, several agents from the Central Unit against Sexual Assaults of the Mossos d'Esquadra have been in charge of accompanying the victim – who will testify behind closed doors and the recording will be saved with her pixelated image and distorted voice – and the two friends. who went with her the night he was at the Sutton nightclub, who are scheduled to testify at the trial as witnesses.
While the Prosecutor's Office requests nine years in prison for the Brazilian international and the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros, the private prosecution brought by the victim – with the lawyer Ester Garcia – raises their request to 12 years in prison, the maximum for a crime of sexual assault.
The defense, carried out by the lawyers Inés Guardiola and Miraida Puente Wilson, requests the acquittal of Alves arguing that there was no rape and that the sexual relationship with the complainant was consensual, although it raises mitigating factors to mitigate the penalty in the event of a possible conviction: drunkenness and reparation for the damage for having paid the 150,000 euros that the judge imposed as bail. to cover possible compensation to the victim.
EFE
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