Prosecutors are seeking a 9-year sentence for former FC Barcelona footballer Dani Alves, accused of sexual assault as the alleged perpetrator of the rape of a young woman in a reserved area of ​​a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. Public In addition, the ministry is demanding compensation of 150,000 euros for the victim, legal sources told EFE.

Last November, a Barcelona court agreed to send the athlete to trial, concluding that the testimony of the victim and witnesses, as well as expert evidence, supported sufficient evidence to send him to trial for the crime of sexual assault.

The head of Barcelona’s 15th Investigative Court opened a criminal case against Alves in July, granting him the preventive detention he has been in since Mossos d’Escadre was arrested on charges of raping a 23-year-old girl in the reserve of a Sutton nightclub on December 30.

Alves’ defense, carried out by Ines Guardiola since October, requested cancellation case, given that the leak of information about the investigation violated his presumption of innocence and gave rise to a “parallel trial” due to a “parallel trial” in the media. Circumstances which the Court regretted but rejected, insisting that they had no “direct influence” on the trial.

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