The former Barça football player was sentenced to four and a half years of prison last year and spent more than a year in provisional prison for the alleged violation of a young woman in a disco in Barcelona.
The Court of Justice of Catalonia Dani Alves of the positions of sexual aggression has acquitted the car -controlleri Dani for which he had been sentenced to four and a half years of prison. The former Barça football player has passed more than A year in temporary prison Due to the rape of rape by a young woman in the bathrooms of a reserve reserved in a disco in Barcelona.
The Court’s Chamber of Appeals, made up of three women and a man, has established it The testimony of the alleged victim is not enough To maintain the sentence, underlining that it contains “evaluation deficits that prevent the sharing of the assessment of the Court of application and the conclusion to which it reaches” and has given prevalence to the right of accused to presumption of innocence.
Barcelona’s hearing had considered it demonstrated Alves made sex without consent with the young womanBased on his testimony, in which he claimed to have been invited by him to a discovery of the disco on 30 December 2022. After spending more than a year in preventive detention, the former footballer was released later Pays a deposit of one million euros.
The Court reconsidered the victim’s testimony
Despite the initial sentence, the Barcelona court Highlighted some inconsistencies in the history of the victim. He said he felt uncomfortable with the Brazilian footballer and that he was the one who brought her to the bathroom, but the images of the club’s security cameras suggested that there was a previous agreement between the two to go to the bathroom.
The judges claimed that this “failure to correspondence” in the testimony did not affect the fundamental of the accusation on the violation, therefore has not completely disqualified its version of the events that have occurred.
Instead, the Court of Justice of Catalonia he reconsidered this pointconclude it The lack of consistency in the first part of the declaration From the victim doubts of the truth of his history of the events that occurred inside the bathroom of the disco, where there were no cameras or witnesses.
The Court of the Court affirms that “of the evidence practiced, it cannot be concluded that the standards required by the presumption of innocence” have been overcome and recalls that the beliefs require a “reinforced fee of motivation”. At unanimously, the magistrates decided it The belief cannot be supported Due to the insufficiency of the tests.
