Former PSG and Barça player Daniel Alves was taken into custody on Friday morning. The Brazilian is accused of having sexually assaulted a woman in a nightclub in the Catalan city, the Sutton.
After giving a statement, the Pumas footballer left the police station in a police car around 10 a.m.
On the way to court
“He came this morning to the police station in Les Corts”, a district of Barcelona, where “he had been summoned. He was taken into custody and is on his way” to court, where he must be heard by a judge, said a spokesman for the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police.
On January 10, a Barcelona court announced that it had “opened an investigation into an alleged offense of sexual assault following the complaint presented by a woman against a football player”, without mentioning the player’s name. But a source familiar with the matter had confirmed to AFP that it was indeed Dani Alves.
Daniel Alves denies any criminal conduct
This woman, who filed a complaint on January 2, accuses the 39-year-old player of touching, said the regional police. According to the local press, the alleged facts took place in a nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30 to 31.
In a message sent to Spanish channel Antena 3 on January 5, the 39-year-old denied any criminal conduct and said he did not know the complainant.