Former Brazil worldwide Dani Alves mentioned for the primary time that he was drunk on the evening he’s accused of committing sexual assault, judicial sources have confirmed to information company EFE.
If accepted as a mitigating issue when the case goes to court docket in February, it might result in a lowered sentence within the case of a conviction.
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Alves’ lawyer, Inés Guardiola, has argued that the extent of Alves’ intoxication impaired his cognitive means and left him unaware of his actions.
It’s the fifth time Alves has modified his story since he was arrested final January on costs of sexually assaulting a lady in a nightclub in Barcelona on Dec. 30, 2022.
At first, he maintained he didn’t know the sufferer. He later mentioned that he had met the girl within the lavatory of the membership however that nothing occurred.
The previous Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain defender, when proven organic proof, modified his model of occasions, saying she had consensually carried out oral intercourse on him.
Final April, after the outcomes of additional organic exams, Alves mentioned for the primary time that he had intercourse with the girl, saying that it was consensual and that he had lied to cover his infidelity to his spouse.
Alves, 40, has been in preventative jail with out bail since his arrest one 12 months in the past. His contract with Liga MX membership Pumas UNAM, the membership he joined after leaving Barça in June 2022, was terminated after he was detained.
He’ll stand trial Feb. 5-7 at a court docket in Barcelona.
State prosecutors are in search of a nine-year jail sentence. The legal professionals representing the girl need him to spend 12 years behind bars. Additionally they search restraining orders for Alves after the jail time period and for him to pay damages value €150,000 ($163,605) to the girl.
Underneath Spain’s sexual consent regulation handed final 12 months, the cost of sexual assault takes in a wide selection of crimes from on-line abuse and groping to rape, every with completely different attainable punishments. A case of rape can carry a most sentence of 15 years.