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Updated Wednesday, February 7, 2024-18:39

"Alves knew what he was doing, he knew what was right and what was wrong." These are the conclusions of two psychologists hired as experts by

Dani Alves

' defense to support the strategy that he was drunk as a possible mitigating circumstance for a conviction for sexual assault. What should have been a boost for the new path opened by lawyer

Inés

Guardiola

can become a real boomerang for the interests of the former footballer.

The player's defense tries to use alcohol consumption as a mitigating factor in the event of a conviction. When questioned by their lawyer, Inés Guardiola, the two psychologists explained that Alves and his friends consumed up to five bottles of wine and one of whiskey at the Taberna del Clínic restaurant, gin and tonics at the Duba bar and six glasses of cava in Sutton, as stated in several drink tickets.

However, after questions from the prosecutor and the complainant's lawyer,

Ester García

, the two psychologists have admitted that they cannot determine the exact amount Alves drank when he was accompanied by several friends; They have said that no breathalyzer test was carried out on him, and they have even acknowledged that "he knew what he was doing" despite an alleged state of drunkenness: "Of course he could distinguish good from evil, because he had no alteration in reality."

Finally, they have also assured that the restaurant and bar bills were given to Alves' lawyer this past January, which shows the new strategy followed by the former footballer's defense so that this alleged state of drunkenness serves as a mitigating circumstance against a possible conviction.

In the first session of the trial, the victim testified behind closed doors and confirmed in court that Alves raped her in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub. A sexual assault endorsed by a friend and her cousin, present that night from December 30 to 31, 2022. "[The victim] told me that I had hurt her a lot and that she had cum inside" as soon as she left the bathroom, they said. both witnesses.

The complainant's friend also recalled how she and her cousin encouraged her to file a complaint: "We told her that she had to report this. She just said 'They're going to think I'm doing this for money.' I tried to calm her down at all times. because she wanted to go home. 'They're not going to believe me,' she repeated."

Dani Alves sits in court accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old girl at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30-31 and faces a sentence of between 9 and 12 years.

The case dates back to the night of Friday, December 30, 2022. Alves was on vacation in Barcelona before rejoining the Pumas of Mexico and after having played in the World Cup. After 2:30 in the morning, he went to the nightclub's booth with a friend and occupied table 6, the only one that gives exclusive access to the so-called Suite, an area with a small toilet, a living room with a sofa, a television and a refrigerator. There, in the booth, they met the young woman and two other girls.

After inviting them to drink for an hour, the former full-back of the Brazilian team would have insisted that the young woman enter the exclusive area where the small toilet was, which she did not know about. In that bathroom, according to the Prosecutor's Office, Alves would have shown a "violent attitude" towards the woman, whom he attacked and forced to have sexual relations, despite her resistance.

"He penetrated her vaginally until he ejaculated, without using a condom and without her consent," says the Public Ministry. "The victim repeatedly requested that he let her go, that she wanted to get out of there, and the defendant did not allow it," indicates the document, which states that lived a "situation of anguish and terror."