2024-03-18 14:13:45
If the legal news in Brazilian football has mainly concerned Daniel Alves at the start of 2024, his former Seleçao partner Robinho could also find himself in prison in the coming weeks. The former star striker of Real Madrid and AC Milan was however sentenced in 2017 to nine years in prison for “gang rape”. But he first appealed, until a conviction was made final by the Italian Court of Cassation in 2022.
Except that the 40-year-old man returned to live in Brazil, and the extradition request against him, made by the Milan prosecutor, with an international arrest warrant, has so far remained in vain. Robinho is not out of the woods, however, since a Brazilian court must decide on Wednesday whether he, banned from leaving his country, must serve his sentence in a prison in Brazil.
“With the amount of evidence I have…”
Brazilian President Lula decided to take a position on the subject last week during a television interview: “I hope he will pay the price for his irresponsibility. All people who commit the unforgivable crime of rape must go to prison. » For the first time since the start of the procedure for this gang rape committed against a young Albanian woman, in 2013, in a nightclub in Milan, Robinho decided to break his silence. Still considering himself innocent, and speaking of a “consensual relationship”, he claims to be convinced that the verdict would have been different if this trial had been that of “a white Italian”.
“With the amount of evidence I have, I would not be convicted,” he says. A thinly veiled accusation of racism from the transalpine judicial system. “I only played four years in Italy [de 2010 à 2014] and I’m tired of seeing stories of racism, continues the ex-scorer on TV Record. Unfortunately, this continues today. We were in 2013, we are in 2024. The same people who do nothing against these kinds of acts are the same people who condemned me. »
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