Version Dani Alves defends himself: "The images deny in the most radical way the climate of terror that the complainant describes"
Case Dani Alves' lawyers believe that he will be released from prison within a month
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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