Dani Alves could serve his sentence outside of prison – 2024-02-23 18:53:24

After waiting 13 months detained in a prison, finally this Thursday, February 22, Dani Alves was found guilty of committing sexual assault on a young woman at a nightclub in Barcelona, ​​Spain, a situation that will force him to serve a sentence four years in prison and of course, it is confirmation of the end of his very rich professional career in football.

In addition, the second most winning player in the history of world football must serve five years of supervised release after the sentence, restricted from approaching the victim for nine years and six months. , and compensation for the woman of 150,000 euros.

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After learning of the ruling, the possibility that the former Brazilian player could serve the recent sentence handed down outside the Spanish prisons quickly began to circulate in the Catalan journalistic environment and there would even be reasons for him to move. to another country.

Possibilities and reasons

In an interview on the television program La Mirada Crítica, lawyer Agustín Martínez Becerra explained that the possibility of serving the sentence outside of prison lies in the fact that “since it is a sentence of less than five years, it is allowed the immediate expulsion of the footballer from the country, since he is of foreign origin.

This theory reinforces the statements made last week by the sports media, Marca, who reported on the statements of Alves’s cellmate in the Brians penitentiary center, in which he claimed that the former Barcelona and Brazilian national team player mentioned his idea based on legality to return soon to his native country to receive hypothetical conditional release before the trial or in any case, to serve his sentence.

In the first instance, the defense of the complainant had asked the judge for 12 years in prison and the Prosecutor’s Office had requested nine. “We must evaluate the sentence, evaluate it well. We have time to review everything. We are satisfied, because it is a sentence that recognizes the truth of the victim and the suffering that has occurred,†said the victim’s lawyer, David Sáez.