Former Brazil worldwide Dani Alves is to be launched from jail pending an enchantment towards his rape conviction in a one-million-euro bail settlement denounced by the sufferer’s lawyer as “justice for the rich”.
The ruling got here a day after his lawyer requested the 40-year-old’s launch on grounds he had already served 1 / 4 of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023.
In its ruling, the Barcelona court docket granted him “provisional release” in trade 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 court docket “on a weekly basis”.
But the choice drew a livid response from the lawyer of the younger girl who was raped by Alves at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.
“I’m very surprised and totally outraged… because it’s like this is justice for the rich,” Ester Garcia instructed RAC1 radio within the northeastern Catalonia area and pledging to enchantment on grounds it was “not in line with the law”.
“It is scandalous that they can free a person who they know can get hold of a million euros in a heartbeat,” she stated.
One of the world’s most embellished footballers who performed for Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Alves was convicted final month of raping the younger girl within the VIP lavatory of Sutton nightclub within the early hours of December 31, 2022.
His legal professionals swiftly appealed the conviction.
The court docket’s choice on Wednesday additionally bars him from “coming within 1,000 metres (yards) of the plaintiff, her home, her workplace and whatever other place that she is, as well as making any attempt to communicate with her”.
The choice was additionally swiftly denounced by the unconventional left-wing Sumar alliance, which is a part of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s leftist coalition.
“Dani Alves can wait at home for his definitive sentencing for RAPE because he has a million euros. The justice system is patriarchal and classist. Enough is enough,” the occasion wrote on its X account.
Since his arrest 14 months in the past, Alves’ authorized workforce has repeatedly requested for his launch on bail however the request was all the time rejected by the court docket on grounds he was a flight threat.
At Tuesday’s listening to, Alves — who spoke by videoconference from jail — promised the judges he wouldn’t flee, with public prosecutors once more opposing the request on grounds he posed a excessive flight threat.
Brazil doesn’t extradite its residents when they’re sentenced in different nations.
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