Football: Brazilian Daniel Alves sentenced to four and a half years in prison

Dani Alves was sentenced on Thursday February 22, 2024 to four and a half years in prison by the Barcelona court.

The Brazilian player was summoned to court on February 22 to hear the verdict of his trial, held from February 5 to 7.

The Brazilian Dani Alvès.

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Brazilian footballer Dani Alves was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for raping a woman in the toilets of a Barcelona nightclub.

The court, which declared in a press release that it considered the rape " 

proven

 ", imposed an additional 5 years of supervised release, a restraining order against the victim for 9 and a half years and the payment of a fine. compensation of 150,000 euros.

The former Brazilian international, against whom the prosecution had requested nine years in prison, had claimed during his trial to have had a consensual sexual relationship and refuted any form of violence against the complainant during his final testimony.

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