Dani Alves pays compensation of 150,000 euros to the woman who accuses him of sexual assault to reduce his sentence

The former Barça footballer has received a new judicial blow this Monday. The court of section 21 of the Barcelona Court has once again denied his request for freedom and he maintains the provisional detention, communicated and without bail agreed on January 20, when he entered prison.

The defense of Dani Alves He again requested his provisional release on November 7, alleging that three months have passed since the previous resolution denying freedom, and that the defendant has already been in provisional prison for nine months. He also states that The 150,000 euros have already been paid to the victim (the compensation demanded by the Prosecutor’s Office), “which would mean the application of the mitigating mitigation of reparation for the damage, so a sentence of less than two years in prison could be imposed”. In addition, it suggests the imposition of a “less burdensome” precautionary measure.

Despite everything, both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution oppose the release of the still husband of Joanna Sanz, who attended the new Mediaset program last Friday to stand up for the Brazilian. The investigating judge argues that the precautionary measure of provisional detention is necessary “to avoid the risk of flight and, in accordance with what is stated in the appeal, the circumstances taken into account to consider the existence of this risk have not changed.”

It also says that “no other cause is alleged that would allow us to conclude that the roots” of Alves in the country have increased. “In the present case, having agreed to open the oral trial, we find ourselves in the intermediate period where even on November 21, 2023, a written indictment has been presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the holding of the trial is therefore closer. judgment, only increases the risk of escape referred to above,” the order adds.

Nine years in prison

Joana Sanz’s husband has been in the Brians 2 prison in Barcelona, ​​since he was accused of having allegedly committed a sexual assault on a 23-year-old girl on December 30, 2022. The alleged events would have occurred in the New Year’s Eve, when Dani Alves – on vacation leave from Puma in Mexico, his club at the time – went to the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, ​​where he met the young woman. Since then, the former FC Barcelona footballer was arrested and has already spent 10 months in prison. The Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, requests 9 years in prison for him.