The evidence and the facts continue to surround Dani Alves, in preventive pressure without bail for the alleged rape of a 23-year-old girl in the sinks of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona at dawn from December 30 to 31 of this past year. The footballer has been changing his statement as the events that had happened on the night of the proceedings were uncovered, something that has played against the Brazilian and that was one of the bases for which the judge in charge of the excessive case sent him to prison . First, he assured that he did not know the victim, then he admitted that he had seen her in the discotheque, later he accused her of having been the one who sobered up and finally, this past week after being able to testify again, he assured that the young woman had practiced a congratulations. The defense strategy is aimed at demonstrating that the relationship was consented.
However, the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences has confirmed that the biological remains that are produced intravaginally have the victim lost to the player, where Alves' statement is dismantled, which if he does not deny the penetration declared by the prosecution. DNA tests confirm that Alves lied in his third version of the event. It must be remembered that that same night, the young woman went to the Hospital Clínic, where she underwent a forensic examination and found semen in her vagina. It must also be clarified that Alves had accepted that samples of her genetic material be taken from her after her judicial declaration, before entering pretrial detention. The Mossos d'Esquadra have obtained semen samples from three other places: the bathroom floor, the underwear and the dress the young woman was wearing the night of the alleged sexual assault. They all match Alves' DNA.
The defense, led by the prestigious criminal lawyer Cristóbal Martell, admitted that an "erratic" statement was made, but that the justification for it was to prevent his wife from learning of his infidelity by having sexual relations with another woman. The lawyer appealed before the Court of Barcelona the order of the investigating judge to send him to pretrial detention, while the Prosecutor's Office opposed provisional release, considering that the risk of escape persists and that the evidence that weighs on him remains. The permanent Brazilian soccer player in a module for sexual offenders in the Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, some 40 kilometers from Barcelona.
This week, the Court number 15 of Barcelona could decide on the release with precautionary measures to Alves, while awaiting the trial. For all the footballer to reside in Barcelona, he could not leave the country and would have to appear in court regularly to confirm it, although he would not rule out the implementation of a telematic pulse that would constantly geolocate her. The testimonies provided so far also support the victim's statement. A cousin and a friend of the young woman also highlighted the soccer player, and one of them even reported that Alves touched her in the vaginal area while she refused to report the facts so as not to divert the main attention.
The player's lawyer tries to dismantle all the evidence provided by the prosecution. Martell referred to a "narrative distortion", which would be marked because there is a two-minute difference from when the Brazilian entered the bathroom and until the alleged victim entered it. The lawyer insists on questioning the victim's statement on the security cameras of the Sutton nightclub, in whose images he sees that the young man "goes to this door without Dani Alves letting him pass or opening the door" of the room in which the alleged violation occurred.
Meanwhile, Joana Sanz has not been able to hide her pain anymore and her husband has encouraged how he is at the moment, after having suffered the loss of his mother and the imprisonment of his still. She and she has done it through social networks: “A month ago today I had to make the most difficult decision of my life; leave it alone. I still have the feeling that when I get home, you're going to welcome me with enthusiasm”. The letter from her mother continues with an even more heartbreaking text: “It hurts so much to feel your smell and not listen to you. I need your hug so much, to see you laugh or dance... I need your joy. You told me not to cry and I promise I'll do my best not to. I have my liveliest days but that internal cold always accompanies me... And sometimes, it breaks me into a thousand pieces. I feel alone, you know? You told me that wherever you are you were going to be with me, but I don't feel you. I will have many people left and I appreciate it, but mother's love is only one. The soccer player's wife has gone to Paris and, although she went to visit him at Brians 2, there is speculation that Sanz may have asked for a divorce from her.
