Dani Alves’s first statement after his release from prison

Spain – Former Barcelona and Brazilian national team star Dani Alves admitted that he had adapted to life in prison, where he spent 14 months, in his first statement about two weeks after his release on bail.

Alves was sentenced before the Court of First Instance in the Spanish city of Barcelona to 4 years and 6 months in prison, on charges of raping a girl in a nightclub in Barcelona, ​​on December 30, 2022. The Spanish judiciary recently allowed the famous Brazilian player to leave prison, obliging him to pay a bail of one million euros. Until the appeals filed are considered.

The court also took additional precautionary measures against the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain player, such as confiscating his passports (Brazilian and Spanish), preventing him from leaving the country, and appearing every Friday before the court.

Alves made his first statement after his release from prison, when he told the Spanish newspaper “EL PERIDICO” that he appears before the court in Barcelona every Friday, “This is what I must do.” I go to court every Friday and that’s it. “I don’t have much to do.”

Alves did not want to talk about his case and simply said: “The game I must play will remain in the corridors of the courts.”

Regarding the time he spent in prison and his life there, Alves said: “Wherever I go, I live. “I adapt to everything, because for me it is not the place that makes the person, but the person who makes the place.”

The former Brazilian international stressed that he is “calm and in good health.”

Source: “EL PERIDICO”