2024-03-21 23:59:07
The former player showed “special disdain” towards the victim, and “brutally humiliated her” (AFP)
Former Brazilian national football team star Robinho decided to appeal the ruling that imposed his imprisonment in his country for nine years, before the Supreme Court, on charges of his participation in the rape of an Albanian woman in 2013 in Milan while he was defending the Italian club Milan, according to what the defense team for the former Manchester player announced. English City and Spanish Real Madrid. Judges in Brazil ruled that the former “Seleção” star, who is currently forty years old, must serve a nine-year prison sentence in his country for the crime of rape issued against him by an Italian court.
The court ruled by a majority of nine votes to two in favor of an Italian request that Robinho serve his sentence in his country after his conviction in 2017 for the gang rape of an Albanian woman who was celebrating her twenty-third birthday in a nightclub in Milan in 2013 while defending the Milan shirt.
The conviction was confirmed during an appeal in Italy in 2020, and then became final by the Italian Court of Cassation in 2022. At the beginning of the same year, the public prosecutor in Milan requested the extradition of the former international striker, whose full name is Robson de Souza, and issued an international arrest warrant against him, along with Knowing that Brazil does not extradite its citizens.
According to the ruling that convicted him in Italy, the former Brazilian international player (100 matches, 28 goals) and five of his compatriots made the victim drink alcohol “to the point of leaving her unconscious and unable to defend herself” and then had “sexual intercourse several times immediately” with her. .
The former player showed “particular contempt” towards the victim, and “brutally humiliated” her.
Robinho played in the last stop of his career with Istanbul Basaksehir in the Turkish League in 2020, before leaving to return to Brazil.
Robinho, who was briefly arrested in England in 2009 on charges of sexually assaulting a young woman, before the charge was dropped after an investigation, claimed in an interview with the Brazilian TV Record network broadcast on Sunday that the sex took place “consensually.”
He added, “I never denied that (the encounter). I could have denied it because my DNA was not there, but I am not a liar.”
He also accused the Italian judicial system of “racism.”
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