Last Friday June 9, Joana Sanz turned 31 years old. The Canarian model faced her most bitter anniversary, since it is the first time that she celebrates it without two of the most important people in her life: her mother, who died of cancer last month from January; and her still husband, the former soccer player Dani Alves, who has been in prison since January 20 after being accused of raping a 23-year-old girl in the toilets of a nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30. .
Even with everything, the model decided to put a good face on time and, with her already characteristic huge smile, she assured that she was not going to be overcome by bad feelings. "Here I am, at 31 years old, healing knife wounds, rebuilding myself from the ashes, starting again," she insisted, in an emotional post on her Instagram account where she celebrated this new stage.
"It would be very ungrateful for me to say alone, because I am not alone," she admits, "I am letting myself be loved by those who love me well and better, appreciating each hug or each gesture and returning it with my best version."
Everything, because "unlike many broken people, I know my value", and he insists to his followers, especially those who may be experiencing a similar situation: "Never stop knowing your value. Nothing and no one has power in their hands to devalue you, it is you who allows it".
The woman from Tenerife remembers that you have to overcome that fear of "not being up to it", because nobody is. A whole declaration of intent for this new one that she is starting, far from Barcelona, but not from her still husband, since she talks to him every day and he has not yet signed her divorce.
The woman from Tenerife celebrated her 31st birthday in a week in which her still husband was risking his freedom again. His legal team once again asked for his provisional release before the Barcelona Court last Friday, in a hearing with all the parties -Alves' defense, the Prosecutor's Office and the victim's lawyer- to reassess the provisional detention situation of the footballer after he requested his release for the last time in April and that the investigating court denied it in May.
In the hearing, which lasted about an hour, the footballer's lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, has used various arguments to demonstrate that there is no risk of flight that justifies provisional detention, focusing on the fact that the transfer and registration of his children (15 and 17 years old) in Barcelona or that the fact that the footballer has the company that manages his assets and audiovisual rights in Barcelona proves his willingness to remain in the Catalan capital until the trial is held.
Martell has also referred to the images recorded by the nightclub's security cameras, which in his opinion show a normal relationship between the two before entering the bathroom, and to the last statement that his client gave before the judge on April, in which he admitted that there were relations between him and the victim but assuring that they were consented.
After this hearing, the Barcelona Court will assess the arguments of the parties and decide whether to confirm the order of the investigating court that denied the former soccer player's request for provisional release or whether to amend it and allow him to leave prison.
