Dani Alves claims he sent his children to school in Barcelona to rule out the risk of running away

defense of Daniel Alves he appealed to the court in Barcelona against the decision of the investigating judge to deny him temporary release last April 20. His lawyers now claim that the Brazilian sent his children to school Barcelona, which means that he has a “life project” and therefore the risk of escape is excluded. The former football player has been in prison since January 20, accused of rape a young woman in the bathtub sutton disco from the city.

“The escape adventure is unimaginable” because it would mean “an unbearable burden for the subject and unnecessary shame for himself and for the family and children” which Alves “does not want to provoke”, justify the lawyers Cristóbal Martell and Arnau Xumetra, reports Efe. They point out that he has a “life project” in Barcelona, ​​where he always wanted his children to get a university education, which is why he registered them in Spain, where his eldest son will study his last year of high school.

The Brazil international’s lawyers argue in their appeal that the risk of flight is “non-existent” as the case’s evidence provides “solid perspective and strength” for the defence. “Dani Alves can and wants to defend himself and will not avoid the process,” the letter reads.

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The judge had already rejected a similar request from the player, and the Court of Barcelona upheld her decision, but Alves requested it again after a second voluntary statement, in which he changed his version of the facts and admitted that there was penetration, but he was spoiled. His defense claims that he presented the story “solvent, linear, without contradictions and offering a version covered with rationality”, ahead of his first “wandering and confused” statement, in which he tried at all costs to hide his infidelity from his wife.

The letter insists on questioning the story of the victim, who, according to the defense, was “dragged by a series of events”, after which she “runs forward” to justify the reasons why she entered the bathroom with the football player. And that is that the bulk of Dani Alves’ appeal focuses on questioning the prosecutor’s version in light of the images captured by the night club’s security cameras in the moments before the footballer and the prosecutor entered the bathroom where the alleged rape took place. In this way, the defense refutes the arguments of the investigating judge who discredited the analysis of the video footage, stating that it is nothing more than documentary evidence of the party, because it was “neither ordered by the court nor conducted by the scientific police”, reports Efež.