It’s official, Dani Alves now has more versions than the Champions League on his list. Accused of rape by a 23-year-old young woman and placed in pre-trial detention in the Barcelona prison of Brians 2, the former Barcelonan indeed gave a new version of the facts during his last hearing, on January 23, before a prosecutor’s office. private.
After having initially denied the supposed facts and assured not to know the young woman who accuses him, the Brazilian had ended up explaining to the examining magistrate that he had only crossed this person in the toilets of a Barcelona nightclub on December 30. Before finally recognizing, Thursday, during his appeal trial, that there had indeed been a sexual act, but that it was consented.
Dani Alves says he wanted to “protect” the young woman
Meanwhile, according to the Brazilian media Telecinco, the one who calls himself the “Good crazy” would have confessed to his wife, Joana Sanz, that he “did not remember anything”, because he “was drunk”. Finally, the latest version revealed by the Catalan media Macaw, the former Auriverde international claimed that the woman would have thrown herself on him in the toilet to perform oral sex on him without his consent, which he ultimately could not resist. “She went straight to me. I didn’t touch that girl,” he reportedly said.
When the private prosecutor’s office asked him why he had reconsidered his initial statements, Dani Alves would have explained that he wanted to “protect this young woman”. For his part, the alleged victim claims to have been abused and forced. If the rape charges are confirmed in court, the Brazilian faces up to twelve years in prison. In the event of reclassification of the facts in sexual assault, the former side of the PSG would then risk four years of imprisonment.