The former footballer Dani Alves appeared on March 28 for the first time in the Barcelona Court after being released provisionally on Monday the 25th after having posted the bail of one million euros imposed as bail, while the appeals regarding his conviction are resolved. for rape.
Alves arrived at around 9:20 a.m. this Thursday at the Barcelona Palace of Justice, accompanied by his lawyer, Inés Guardiola. to appear before section 21a of the Provincial Court, a building in which he has been for around ten minutes.
The Brazilian has been sentenced in the first instance to four years and six months in prison for raping a young woman in the toilets of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on December 30, 2022, and has spent a total of 14 months in prison.
Section 21a of the Barcelona Court, the chamber that tried and sentenced him, Last week he allowed Alves to leave prison when he posted a bail of one million euroswith the dissenting vote of one of the three magistrates, while the appeals against the sentence that convicted him of rape are being resolved.
Finally, Alves left the Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona), last Monday afternoon, after having been able to deposit that same day in the morning the million euros imposed by the Court of Barcelona to be able to leave in freedom.
Among the precautionary measures imposed, They highlight the withdrawal of the two passports -Brazilian and Spanish-, the prohibition of leaving the country and the obligation to appear every Friday before the secretary of section 21a, or the last previous working day in case it is a holiday, as happened this Thursday.
Alves arrived by car after leaving his house about half an hour earlier.and he got out of the vehicle accompanied by his lawyer, with whom he traveled the meters that separate one of the sides of the Palace of Justice with the main entrance.
The Brazilian arrived at the court dressed in a white shirt, pants and sneakers, and a brown jacket, with a calm attitude and without paying attention to the press, who were waiting for him on the other side of the street, separated from the entrance through fences installed by the Mossos d’Esquadra for security.
At no time, neither the former FC Barcelona footballer nor his lawyer have made any type of statement to the media that were waiting for him.
Alves was inside the Palace of Justice for around ten minutes until, once the procedure was completed, he left it and went back to the car that was waiting for him on the corner where he had previously left him, driven by a friend. yours.
During Alves’s brief appearance in court, A spontaneous man approached the area where the press was and scolded the footballer with cries of “rapist”, and also reproached him for being able to get out of jail in exchange for one million euros.among other insults.
For its part, the Barcelona Provincial Prosecutor’s Office presented an appeal against the decision to release Alves on bail – something that the victim’s lawyer also announced would do -, considering that the current risk of escape is “even greater” now in the face of the existence of a conviction.
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