The Investigating Court number 15 of Barcelona must decide this week whether to release the player Daniel Alves despite the accusation of sexual assault on a woman in the toilets of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona. Alves testified again a few weeks ago and explained that the relationship was consensual, for which reason his lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, again demanded the release of the former Barça defender.
However, both the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution, which represents the victim, have presented briefs in court in which they oppose this exit. They mainly argue that there is a flight risk, but they also point out that Alves’ latest statement in court is full of contradictions. Thus, the victim’s lawyer considers that if the two had had the intention of having sexual relations consensually, they would have gone to ‘the suite’ and not in the bathroom at the bottom of the stairs that lead to this room exclusively.
The disco has a private space that is accessed from the reserved area through the door next to the DJ up some stairs. It is a private room with a tv and a sofa. The images from the security cameras indicate that Alves entered this door first and then her. The statements of the two agree that they went to the bathroom at the bottom of those stairs.
The victim’s lawyer, Ester García, recalls that Alves has offered various contradictory versions about what happened in the toilet of the premises and that in the last interrogation he explained that they were consented to penetration. The player remarked that he had previously denied knowing the girl on the grounds that he wanted to save her marriage and only later, given the numerous existing indications of guilt, did he confess that she gave him fellatio but she consented.
However, the victim’s defense states that she had to change her version that there was vaginal penetration since the biological test on her clothes and inside her body concluded that the remains corresponded to Alves, so her witness went to the acceptance of relationships but always with consent. The woman’s defense also points out that Alves’ latest statement does not match the results of the tests carried out in this procedure, such as the position of the fingerprints in the bathroom.
In this sense, there are footprints in the sink that indicate relationships from behind and not him sitting on the toilet as the Brazilian defense explained in court, according to judicial sources. The lawyer also points out that the report provided by the defense of more than 200 pages with analysis of the security cameras in which a “closeness” between player and victim is highlighted is an interested and partly interpretation, according to the prosecution brief. particular.
Finally, like the Prosecutor’s Office, the prosecution maintains that there is a risk of flight for Alves since it does not prove an increase in his roots in our country but rather decreases since his wife Joana Sanz announced that she wants to divorce and left the family home. He also points out that his economic capacity is the same as when the prison was agreed upon last January. For this reason, the prosecution believes that nothing links Alves to Spain and because he has money outside the country there is a risk of flight.
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