Former Brazil worldwide footballer Dani Alves is to be launched from jail pending an enchantment in opposition to his rape conviction in change for posting bail of a million euros ($1.08 million), a Barcelona courtroom mentioned Wednesday.
The ruling got here a day after his lawyer requested the 40-12 months-previous’s launch on grounds he had already served 1 / 4 of his 4-and-a-half-12 months sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023.
In its ruling, the courtroom granted him “provisional release” in change for “the bail payment of 1,000,000 euros” additionally requiring he hand over his Spanish and Brazilian passports, stay in Spain and current himself to courtroom “on a weekly basis”.
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Public prosecutors had opposed his request, arguing he posed a excessive-flight danger.
One of the world’s most adorned footballers who performed for Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Alves was sentenced on February 22 after being convicted of raping a younger girl at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.
His legal professionals swiftly appealed the conviction.
The sufferer, who testified behind a display to guard her id, mentioned Alves had violently compelled her to have intercourse in a personal lavatory of the nightclub regardless of begging him to launch her, inflicting her “anguish and terror”, prosecutors mentioned.
Alves’ legal professionals had argued the sufferer had been “glued” to the participant whereas dancing on the nightclub, saying there was “sexual tension” between them.
But in its 61-web page choice, the courtroom mentioned that didn’t imply “that she consented to anything that might have subsequently happened”.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
