After asking Neymar’s father for help, who refused to provide the money, Dani Alves paid bail of one million euros and is expected to be released in the next few hours. The information is being provided by the Spanish press.
According to the newspaper ABC, Dani Alves’ defense has already transferred the money to the Barcelona Court’s bank account, after the former PSG player was sentenced to four and a half years for raping a young woman in a nightclub in Barcelona in December. 2022.
In addition to paying bail, he also surrendered his two passports, Spanish and Brazilian, and will have to appear in court every week.
Therefore, the former Barcelona player should be “provisionally released”, five days after the court ordered his arrest on bail and after 14 months behind bars, writes ABC.
Dani Alves, who played for FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus, among others, was accused of raping the young woman in the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022, although the player, who remains imprisoned for 14 months, has presented different versions of what happened, has argued that the relationships were consensual.
The prosecution had asked for nine years in prison as well as the payment of 150 thousand euros to the victim and freedom under supervision for 10 years after leaving prison.
The victim’s defense criticized the decision to release Dani Alves on bail of one million euros, saying that this measure presupposes that there is “justice for the rich”.
According to the process, Alves was at the nightclub in Barcelona and met the victim, with other people, inviting her to dance and, later, to a secluded part of the common space, in which he forced her to have sexual relations.
Dani Alves is one of the most decorated footballers in the history of sport, winning 23 trophies at Barça alone, between 2008 and 2016, and was playing for Pumas, in Mexico, when he was arrested, leading the club to fire him immediately.
