The Higher Court of Catalonia fully satisfied the appeal of the Brazilian football player Dani Alves, convicted of rape, and canceled the conviction, writes to Reuters. Alves also lifted all the restrictions on the trip. There was no sufficient evidence that “surpasses the standards required by the presumption of innocence”. The testimonies of the alleged victim, as the court said, were not reliable when it was about facts that could be checked using videos. The court found that this “clearly indicates” that the victim’s story was not true. The decision could still be appealed to the Supreme Court of Spain. In February 2024, the court sentenced Alves to four and a half years in prison on charges of rape of a woman in a nightclub in Barcelona in 2022. Alves has been in custody since the arrest in January 2023. In March 2024, a month after the sentence, the court released him on bail of one million euros. 41-year-old Alves began his career in the Spanish Seville, and then spent eight seasons in Barcelona, along with which he won the Champions League and repeatedly became the champion of Spain. Since 2016, Alves played in Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Brazilian San Paulo. Then he returned to Barcelona as a free agent, and in 2022 he left the club and signed a contract with the Mexican Unya Puama. (Tagstotranslate) News
