The case of Dani Alves: four different and contradictory versions of the footballer

Daniel Alves He is on his way to a three-month detention in Brians 1 Prison, charged with an alleged sexual assault. The soccer player is inside pretrial detention without bail given the risk of flight due to his dual Spanish and Brazilian citizenship, given that there is no extradition treaty with Brazil. And, although he has so far failed to convince the judge of his innocence, this Monday, April 17, he has a new chance. The former Barcelona player was personally summoned to the Third Department of the Court of Barcelona to testify and defend himself against the alleged charges against him. It is unknown what will happen new version offer to try to convince the judge of his innocence, because he is an athlete in just three months he has already given up to four versions mutually very different and contradictory.

Complaint

The facts date from the night of December 30, 2022. After a night out at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, ​​the 23-year-old accused the athlete of rape. According to her description of the event, she went to a disco with a friend and her cousin and there they met some Mexican guys who invited her to the VIP area. Already in that part, the waiter asked them to switch tables, since someone wanted to meet them, and pointed to the table where Dani Alves and a friend were sitting. Things would soon turn violent. According to the alleged victim, Dani Alves (39) offered them a drink and stood behind the girl. “He took my hand, put it on his penis and I removed it,” the young woman told the authorities. He soon led her to a door that, unknown to her, connected to the bathroom in the VIP area. When he got inside, he closed it and sat on the toilet bowl. Always according to the complainant’s version, he told her that she could not leave, took her by the head and directed it at his penis to give him fellatio, while slapping it. He then turned her around and “forced” his way into her until he ejaculated. A few seconds later he got dressed, went to the door and said, “I’ll be the first to go out.” The victim left the VIP area with her friend and cousin, burst into tears and outside the club told everything to the porter, who activated the protocol for sexual harassment.

First version: He doesn’t know her at all

What was known until now

What was known about the case when Dani Alves presented his first version, on January 5, was that a young woman denounced the footballer for an alleged sexual assault that would have taken place just days before (December 30) in the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona . The information so far says that the girl claimed that the former Barcelona player “touched” her in the bathroom.

The news that was known until then was that the security cameras showed that both of them really entered the bathroom where they stayed for only 47 seconds.

But, at that moment, it was only her word against his. So Dani Alves decided to send a video to the program And now Sonsoles to tell his version, not the official one, since it is not covered by police action.

Version

Dani Alves completely denied the facts in his video. He admitted that he was in a disco, where he “enjoyed himself”, but, according to his version, “without encroaching on other people’s space, always respecting the environment”. The football player also believed that “when you decide to go to the toilet, you don’t have to ask who is there to go”, and immediately afterwards he denied that he knew the complainant. – I don’t know her name, nor have I ever seen her again in my life.

Another version: They met in the bathroom, but nothing happened

What was known until now

Footage from the security cameras of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona showed that it was the player himself who persistently led the girl to the bathroom in the VIP area. Alves was standing at the bathroom door and invited her to come in with him. And in there, in a tiny cabin, they stayed for 17 minutes, much longer than some media of dubious reliability said. Afterwards, it was seen that he was the first to leave the bathroom, and she did so immediately. In addition, the versions of all the witnesses who passed through the police station — the victim’s relative, the waiter, the doorman, the nightclub owner — did not at all contradict the version of the complainant, who could accurately describe all the tattoos that the alleged assailant had on his groin. In addition, the young woman left a dress for evidence.

Then the Mossos d’Esquadra devised a trap to lure Alves, who was in Mexico at the time. The agents gave away only the information they were interested in, pretending to disdain the victim’s version, and also used fake news who claimed they were in the bathroom for only 47 seconds, when in fact they were in the bathroom for 17 minutes.

Coincidentally, on January 13, the mother of Dani Alves’ wife died, and the footballer returned to Spain, trusting him — and his lawyer — that he would never be charged or arrested. But a few days later they arrested him, read him his rights and took him to the court cells.

New version

Considering the security camera evidence, Dani Alves confirmed that he and the girl did indeed meet in the bathroom, but according to his version, nothing happened. The football player assured that he and the young woman were together in the bathroom during that time and that the alleged victim stayed by his side while he defecated, but that he did not touch her.

Third version: They had oral sex

What was known until now

An analysis of the Sutton nightclub bathroom, which was sealed due to an assault complaint, has once again shown that Dani Alves’ version does not hold up. Investigators found the player’s genetic remains inside the sink, more precisely the seed. Because of this, Alves decided to request a new testimony permit, which he was granted.

New version

In the presence of his sperm in the bathroom, Dani Alves admitted that oral sex took place in the bathroom — but not penetrative intercourse, as claimed by the complainant — although, according to the player’s new version, he not only consented to the young woman, but also that threw herself on him to fellatio him while he was sitting on the toilet bowl.

He justified his contradictions by claiming that he denied any previous sexual relationship because he did not want to tell his wife that he had been unfaithful.

Fourth version: Penetrative sex, but with consent

What was known until now

Biological tests again denied Dani Alves’ version and confirmed that what happened in that bathroom was something more than oral sex. The results of the National Institute of Toxicology showed that the remains of semen found in the intravaginal samples of the young complainant came from football players.

Not just that. A detailed analysis of the sink showed, point by point, the story of the victim. Fingerprints and genetic remains matching all the information provided by the complainant, who described in great detail where they were located, where they were leaning or what they were doing.

The evidence showed that penetrative sex took place, as the victim said.

New version

Dani Alves then returned to testify before the judge and confirmed that he and the young woman had full sexual relations, but that, in any case, they were consensual. And he hid behind the fact that he hadn’t said it before to protect the girl’s integrity.

In addition, the footballer tried to turn things around, claiming that she was the one who attacked him, and added: “I was sexually assaulted and I lied for her.”

New version: Consent, the key to defense

What is known so far

After his contradictory versions, Dani Alves never managed to convince either the investigating judge or the Provincial Court in Barcelona, ​​which until now kept him in temporary custody due to the risk of flight. Because of this, the football player again requested to testify and was personally summoned by the judge in the proceedings on Monday, April 17.

What will be the new version?

According to information from various sources, and taking into account the recent statements of his friend Bruno Brasil in the program And now SonsolesAlves’ defense strategy will be to try to convince the courts that what happened that day in Sutton was consensual sex and, therefore, there was no rape or sexual assault.

Bruno Brasil, who accompanied the footballer on the night of the event, has a new letter up his sleeve, and who stated last Friday in a television program that “Dani spoke with all of them, but more with her [la denunciante]who approached him at times, dancing and rubbing against each other, attracting his attention,” says a close friend of Dani Alves.

According to this version of the footballer’s colleague, after the bath the two of them went out, and her reaction was “normal”. “When I leave the bathroom, [la denunciante] he gave me “high five” [choca esos cinco] before leaving, and his cousin a kiss on the cheek,” said Bruno Brasil, who also assured that he and the complainant’s cousin continued to communicate later on Instagram and talked about seeing each other as friends, because “they were neighbors,” although After the complaint, a relative blocked him on the social network and deleted the conversations.