Despite his attempts to protect Dani Alves will have to stay in jail prior to his trial, the same as he had done since his arrest on 20 January on charges of raping a woman on 30 December in a Barcelona nightclub. The footballer’s lawyers have filed an appeal against a measure of restraint without bail for the defendant, which has just been rejected by the prosecutor’s office. it’s February 6th.

“The rational signs of criminality remain, and the risk of flight remains, without alternative measures to imprisonment proposed by the defense, mitigating such goals,” sources in the prosecutor’s office of the province of Barcelona assured. In other words, Prosecutors continue to see the risk of flight football player, despite the fact that his defense suggests the seizure of the passport, telematic control of the bracelet and even regular visits to the courts since then believes that the offense is serious enough to warrant this action and, in addition, the favorable financial situation of the player further increases the risk of flight.

And the fact is that for Dani Alves, things could get even more complicated, since the judge investigating the case would have suggested to one of the victim’s girlfriends on the night of the alleged rape that she also report it. After speaking with the main witnesses in the case, among whom were a friend and cousin of the victim, the judge considered that one of the two could also convict Alves for touching according to his account of what happened in the private room before the alleged sexual assault. At the moment, according to judicial sources in various media, young woman would refuse to condemn for he does not wish to belittle the chief and most serious fact, that is, the alleged infringement by which his companion suffered.