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The

cousin

and a

friend

of the woman who has denounced the soccer player

Dani Alves

for allegedly sexually assaulting her at the

Sutton

nightclub in

Barcelona

and

six

local workers have ratified before the judge who is investigating the case what they already declared to the

Mossos d'Esquadra

before that the player entered provisional prison, legal sources have explained.

The head of the Investigating Court 15 has taken a statement from the

eight witnesses

this Friday morning for just over two hours, and has alerted the parties of possible sanctions in case the content of the statements is made public.

To make statements, a device of security guards from the Ciutat de la Justícia and the Mossos d'Esquadra has limited access to the area of ​​the courtroom where the witnesses have come.

The two women who have testified are the friends who were partying with the complainant on the night of December 30, 2022, when the alleged assault occurred, and among the nightclub workers who have testified there are

several of the waiters and the doorman

who they attended to the girl that night.

PENDING APPEAL

On Friday, January 20, the Mossos arrested Alves as a result of the evidence they had collected against him based on the statements of these witnesses and the recordings of the local security cameras.

That same day, the soccer player went to court and the judge sent him to

provisional prison

, where he has remained since then, although his defense tries to revoke that situation with an appeal that he filed last Monday.

The Court of Barcelona has yet to resolve this appeal to decide if Alves remains in provisional prison until the case is judged or if he can be released with some precautionary measure.

In this sense, the player's lawyer,

Cristóbal Martell

, has proposed to the court that Alves hand over his passport and wear a

geolocation bracelet

to guarantee that he will not escape while the case is being investigated.

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