Dani Alves announces to the judge that he will not appeal his prosecution because he wants to go to trial now

The footballer Dani Alves has argued this Wednesday before the judge that he is not satisfied with his prosecution for the alleged rape of a young woman at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, but he will not appeal it because he wants to “expedite” the process and arrive at trial as soon as possible.

Alves has appeared today for about a quarter of an hour before the head of the Investigating Court Number 15 of Barcelona, which has informed him of his prosecution for a crime of sexual assault with carnal access and has given him the opportunity to testify for the last time, before sending the case to trial.

According to legal sources, the Brazilian international, who has been transferred to the courts from the Brians 2 prison, where he has been held since last January, has held a brief demonstration to announce that he is not “satisfied” with the facts that attributed to him in the indictment, but that he does not intend to appeal it because he is interested in going to trial as soon as possible.

In fact, the indictment will be declared final in a few days, since neither party intends to appeal, so the process will be opened for the accusations to present their writings, outlining the crimes that they attribute to Alves and the penalty that they ask for them, and the case will be sent to the Court of Barcelona to set a date and room for the trial.

In a statement sent to the media after the appearance, the Cristóbal Martell law firm, which is in charge of Alves' defense, has specified that the footballer has expressed his “disagreement” with the account of the facts of the indictment, because in his seem “does not fit the reality of what happened”.

“The indictment is a necessary step for the referral of the case to the prosecuting judicial body and, in fact, the defense had requested it for the same purposes of expediting,” added the statement from Martell Abogados.

Alves has been in provisional prison for half a year, after being arrested by the Mossos d'Esquadra for allegedly raping a 23-year-old girl in the bathroom of a private room at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30.

Last Monday, the investigating magistrate concluded the investigation of the case and issued an indictment against Alves for a crime of sexual assault with carnal access, in addition to imposing a bail of 150,000 euros to cover eventual compensation for the victim in case of sentence.

In the car, the judge, who gives total credibility to the complainant's version, maintains that Alves took the victim to a bathroom in the disco's private room and, once there, he raised her dress, made her sit on it and threw her to the ground to try to get her to perform fellatio, to which the young woman refused.

The girl's rejection “enraged the footballer”, adds the magistrate, for which he gave her “several slaps in the face”, turned her on her back, rubbed his penis against her body and penetrated her “violently”..

For his part, the former FC Barcelona player has offered up to four different versions of what happened in the bathroom of the nightclub during the investigation of the case..

After his arrest, last January, he initially maintained that he did not know the victim, then admitted that he met the young woman in the nightclub's bathroom without anything happening between them and, finally, when the judge confronted his explanations with the biological evidence, he maintained that the girl had performed fellatio on him, consensually.

Last April, when the results of the biological tests that found traces of Alves' semen in the victim's private parts were already known, the footballer returned to testify before the instructor at his own request..

In that appearance, he admitted for the first time that he had had consensual sexual intercourse with the victim vaginally, and argued that on the first occasion he had lied to hide his infidelity from his wife..