The referee prevents the psychologist hired by Dani Alves from examining the victim

The judge is investigating Daniel Alves because of the alleged rape of a young woman in a discotheque Sutton from Barcelona He refused the football player’s request that the victim be examined by a psychologist hired by his defense and that the examination be recorded on video. According to legal sources, the president of the first instance court number 15 in Barcelona supported the appeal he filed processing and the private lawsuit filed by the victim and prohibited the participation of the psychologist proposed by the defense in the examination of the young woman.

In this way, the complainant will only be examined by an independent expert from the Institute of Legal Medicine (IMLC), in accordance with the decision of the investigating judge, against which Alves’ defense — led by lawyer Cristóbal Martell — has already appealed to the court. Barcelona.

The judge of the investigation first accepted the proposal of the footballer’s defense, who has been in preventive custody since January 20, that the young woman be examined by a forensic expert and a psychologist appointed by Alves in order to determine whether her story and the symptoms he presents are compatible with the rape she suffered.

Defense of the former player of Barcelona, which intends to penetrate his thesis that the victim’s complaint suffers from “narrative distortion”, not only asked the court for an expert report, but also for the psychological examination of the young woman to be videotaped. The recording of the psychological examination, which they consider unusual in the criminal sphere, was opposed by both the prosecutor’s office and the private prosecution conducted by the complainant, and the judge of the investigation eventually rejected it, which led to an appeal by the defense.

A judge has now agreed with the charges in both appeals, although the court in Barcelona will have the final say on psychological examinations of the victim, an essential test in sexual assault cases and which has not yet been carried out.

After his appeal was rejected, Alves’ defense asked for the footballer to testify again, at his own request, before the investigating judge, which the judge scheduled for next Monday at 10.30 a.m., which will force him to drive from Brians 2 prison where he remains prisoner.

Alves, who during the investigation changed his version of what happened in the private bathroom of the Sutton nightclub several times, is expected to argue before the judge that the sexual relationship with the prosecutor was consensual, as his defense has already pointed out in an appeal against his prison .

The footballer will be assisted on this occasion by his lawyer Cristóbal Martell, unlike the first appearance in court, after his arrest last January, when his lawyer was Miraida Puente Wilson. After the defendant’s testimony, the football player’s defense could once again ask the court in Barcelona to release him on temporary freedom, with precautionary measures deemed appropriate by the judiciary.

On February 21, a court in Barcelona agreed to keep Dani Alves in preventive detention, appreciating the “high” risk of flight and finding the evidence incriminating him to be “difficult” and “diverse”.

The football player is accused of raping a 23-year-old girl in the bathroom of a private room of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30, where he invited her along with two of her friends.