He stood out for a few years at Real Madrid
The legal remedies filed by Robson de Souza (38), better known as Robinho, have been exhausted. The Brazilian was sentenced in 2017 to nine years in prison for participating in the gang rape of a woman of Albanian origin in Milan, Italy. After almost a decade since the events occurred, the Court of Cassation of that country confirmed the soccer player’s sentence on January 19.
The Brazilian crack has been left without legal resources to delay the process. Given this, the Milan Prosecutor’s Office requests his extradition and has issued an international arrest warrant against him for the player, who was previously involved in an alleged sexual assault in a nightclub in Leeds after signing for Manchester City in 2009 serve the relevant sentence. As is the case with the other convicted in the case, his friend Ricardo Falco.
“The only crime I committed was not having been faithful to my wife, I did not make any mistake of raping someone, abusing a girl or going out with her without her consent,” said the soccer player in an interview on UOL Esporte in 2020, where he repeatedly denied that his behavior was inappropriate.
“I did not have a sexual relationship with her. There was physical contact with consent for a few minutes, but there was no sexual intercourse, no penetration, nothing like that. I went home, ”reported the Brazilian, who assured that his friends did have sexual relations with the young woman, who was 23 years old at the time of the events, although “consensual”.
Currently, Robinho resides in his native country, Brazil. The Rio de Janeiro nation has the peculiarity that the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens. Another possibility would be for the Brazilian justice to carry out the sentence in the event that the Italian justice so requests that he be admitted to a prison in the country.