The crocodile can tear to send signals to the outside when it is in pain. Although science says that the most common thing is that these tears have nothing to do with the pain of swallowing its victim, but rather with a purely digestive issue: these drops emanate from the crocodile's eyes to lubricate its oropharyngeal cavity and thus facilitating the passage of the meat to the stomach.
Dani Alves broke down at trial. His crying went around the globe. He tried to prove his innocence, to make it credible in the eyes of the court that tried him, a woman (the president) and two men.
So he cried like a child...
...Or like the crocodile.
It was the same experts summoned by the defense attorney who opened more avenues of water in her story. In the three sessions, contradictions have emerged in the word given by Alves that could be decisive in convicting him of sexual assault. In any case, no one is unaware that the player's word was already reaching the Court heavily manipulated by himself and by his five changes of version about what happened in a bathroom, without cameras or witnesses, in the Sutton's private room in the early hours of the morning. from December 31, 2022.
In the eyes of the viewer, the complainant's story gains robustness supported by the testimonies heard during the trial while Alves's vagaries do not give him the confidence to believe him. The young woman, 23 years old, has assured from minute 1 of the complaint that the soccer player raped her in that bathroom, which she entered voluntarily but from which she could not leave anyway because, she swears, he did not let her.
And no is no.
No means no.
Even believing in the presumption of innocence as a legal principle to preserve, we ask ourselves without waiting for the sentence what need Dani Alves had. “Why did he do it if…”. It's a trick question because we wouldn't ask it if the alleged sex offender wasn't famous. In anonymous rapes, the individual and social circumstances that lead to sexist violence are investigated, which, on the other hand, do not matter when it comes to someone who enjoys popularity.
Not if your name is Alves. Not if you are one of the most successful footballers in history. Not if you are so rich that your fortune is estimated at 55 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. That night the famous former Barça full-back emptied his future like arteries are emptied, all at once. He who has everything doesn't take no for an answer.
This case is important, not only because of the legal significance of the ruling, which will dictate jurisprudence regarding the consent of a rape victim and the credibility supported by the so-called peripheral evidence. It is also because it accounts for the cretinous appetite that some individuals embrace who believe they are divine pieces with the license to outrage just for the sake of it. Powerful individuals who consider themselves unpunished for crime. Finally, let Justice speak.
