Spain’s state prosecutors will attraction towards the four-and-a-half yr sentence handed to Dani Alves and search an extended jail time period, judicial sources informed Efe.
A Spanish courtroom on Feb. 22 discovered the previous Brazil worldwide responsible of sexually assaulting a girl in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.
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The courtroom additionally ordered Alves to pay €150,000 ($162,990) to the sufferer.
The prosecutors’ workplace had requested a nine-year jail sentence for Alves whereas the sufferer had sought 12 years.
The courtroom gave Alves the minimal sentence for sexual assault because it thought-about as a mitigating issue that Alves opted to pay the sufferer the €150,000 compensation whatever the final result of the trial.
Nevertheless, the prosecutors’ workplace imagine it’s “discriminatory” as defendants with cash are capable of pay for a lighter sentence, therefore will probably be one of many principal parts it is going to problem in its attraction.
It’s believed the sufferer additionally intends to attraction towards the sentence.
Alves, 40, has maintained the intercourse was consensual.
His lawyer, Inés Guardiola, stated after the courtroom verdict that her consumer intends to attraction the sentence, which additionally features a five-year probation upon launch and a 9½-year restraining order.
The previous Barcelona defender has been held in custody with out bail in a Barcelona jail since January 2022.
