In the middle of the trial of Dani Alves, who faces sentences of between nine and 12 years in prison for sexual assault, Mercedes Milá wanted to send a loving message to the victim, who has ratified her version in the first session of the trial being held. these days at the Barcelona Court.
"Her body is on the judge's table to force her to remember in great detail what she has struggled to forget every single second after those horrendous 16 minutes in the damn disco," says the presenter, who dedicates an extensive post on Instagram.
Milá wants to make it clear that she subscribes to the victim's version, regardless of the judicial process: "It is not difficult for me because my closeness to her skin is so deep that I can hear her soul feeling that that horror is worse every day, that it has not diminished at all." .
The journalist remembers that the victim has always maintained the same version, "always the same as if those minutes could be forgotten."
Furthermore, he assures that sexual assaults are a major problem. "It's not difficult for me because the violence of that rape is as real as the violence we know almost every day without those men, those boys learning anything from us, women," she continues.
And he thinks that, despite the fact that a judicial process has been opened, in which Dani Alves faces sentences of more than ten years, according to the prosecution's request, "the most difficult days for her have arrived."
Finally, Milá sends her all her support: "I would hug her with all the love I was capable of and I would wish that life would give her a break to erase those damned 16 minutes from her memory."
Alves is accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in December 2022. While the Prosecutor's Office requests nine years in prison for the Brazilian international and the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros, the private prosecution brought by the The victim raises his request to 12 years in prison, the maximum for a crime of sexual assault.
The defense requests the acquittal of Alves, arguing that there was no rape and that the sexual relationship with the complainant was consensual, although it raises mitigating circumstances to mitigate the penalty in the event of a possible conviction: drunkenness and reparation for the damage for having paid the 150,000 euros that the The judge imposed bail on him.
