Dani Alves and his meal in a luxury restaurant after spending 14 months in prison: “I have nothing else to do”

The former footballer’s second visit to the courts to sign, as required by his conditional release, has left a trail of headlines this Friday. To begin with, because of the attitude of the Brazilian, much more smiling and calm than the previous week, dressed in black and covered with sunglasses and a cap. So good-natured that he has even greeted one of the Mossos police officers who were guarding the door and the extensive anti-paparazzi security deployment that protected the husband’s husband with a pat on the back and a joke. Joana Sanz: “They just needed to roll out the red carpet,” some have criticized.

After signing, accompanied by his lawyer Inés Guardiola, Dani Alves He went to one of the most exclusive restaurants in Barcelona, ​​where his inseparable friend Bruno was waiting for him to taste an exquisite meal based on roasted leek, spicy peppers, slow-roasted lamb ossobuco, wagyu meat, truffled polenta corn and ‘thai’ sorbet based on coconut, mango and lime zest. To pay, 277 euros.

There, relaxed and exhausted, he answered questions from the press for the first time since leaving Brians II prison, where he remained for 14 months. “It’s what I have to do. Every Friday I go to court and that’s it. I don’t have much else to do either”has told The newspaper when asked about his weekly visits to the Barcelona Court. The Brazilian, who has appealed his sentence of four and a half years in prison for raping a 23-year-old girl at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, ​​did not want to talk about his situation “because it is prosecuted”, but he has made it clear that he will fight. to prove his innocence: “The game I have to play is in the courts.”

Regarding his stay in prison, he has assured that “I adapt to everything because for me it is not the place that makes the person, but the person that makes the place” and commented: “Wherever I go, I survive.” Alves ended the conversation with four words: “I’m fine and calm.”