The lawyer Cristóbal Martell was not in the mood this Tuesday morning. Accompanied by the lawyer from his office, Arnau Xumetra, around ten in the morning he went to the Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, to meet with his client, Dani Alves, accused of raping a 23-year-old girl in the early morning. on December 30 in the bathroom of a nightclub in Barcelona.
Martell stopped for a few seconds before entering prison and did not want to assess the content of the appeal of the third section of the Barcelona Court, which on Monday once again denied provisional release for the footballer. He spoke with Alves about that letter and the defense strategy during the long interview that the three of them had in the morning. "I don't really want to talk. But if I tell you that Dani Alves is an athlete with great mental strength and I am convinced that he will help him at this time to manage this bad situation," he said at the entrance.
The investigation of the cause is practically finished, waiting for the analysis of the psychiatric coroner to be performed on the victim. An expert that will have the presence of a psychiatrist appointed by the footballer's defense, as precisely authorized by the Barcelona Court, after a letter from Martell.
Alves has been in prison since January 20, when he was arrested by the central sexual assault unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra, following a complaint filed by a 23-year-old girl who accused him of having raped her in the bathrooms of a private of the Sutton of Barcelona.
