Since the night of January 20, the footballer Dani Alves set foot in the Brians 1 prison, to end up four days later in a cell in module 13 of Brians 2, his routines have not changed and he maintains the same exemplary behavior of the first day Only once did the officials have to call his attention. It coincided with the carnivals in Brazil: the man improvised a batucada in his cell, hitting everything he had at hand with rhythm. Then the workers opened the door to remind him that it was not hours, nor a place for parties.
This Monday he will be released for the first time since a Barcelona judge sent him to provisional prison without bail, accused of raping a 23-year-old girl at dawn on December 30 in a bathroom in the reserved rooms of the Sutton nightclub. The soccer player's lawyer, Cristobal Martell, submitted a letter a few days ago to Judge Concepción Cantón requesting to testify again. The hearing is scheduled at half past ten in the morning in court 15 and will be behind closed doors. In addition to Martell and his office partner Arnau Xumetra, the victim's lawyer, Ester García, the prosecutor Elisabeth Jiménez, and magistrate Concepción Cantón will be present. The Martell interrogation will begin, which will try to correct the chaos of versions that Alves gave in that same court on January 20, after being arrested and brought before the courts.
On that occasion, he had already made public a video assuring that he had never seen the young woman who denounced him in his life, to tell later that the woman entered the bathroom by surprise, practically pounced on him with the intention of giving him fellatio and that he he finally agreed to have sex.
Alves will justify the different versions of that afternoon in court, assuring that he tried to avoid further damage to his wife, Joana Sanz, at the time, and will explain that he met the young woman that same night in the private room of the Sutton nightclub, where he arrived accompanied by his friend Bruno. That before accessing the bathroom he danced and flirted with the complainant and her friend, but more especially with her friend. And that the young woman freely agreed to the private bathroom after both had previously agreed. The defendant's account will be adjusted to the study of the images that Martell's office has prepared and that shows the woman accessing that first door that gives access to a second that leads to a small bathroom, two minutes after the player, and without It seems that there is no type of pressure or threats. The player will insist that the woman freely and knowingly agreed. A statement in which the defendant, as La Vanguardia has learned from sources around the footballer, will admit for the first time that the sexual relations were "consented by both" and that the two agreed that he would return to the private room first and then he would her, but not together so as not to arouse suspicion.
The accused of raping the young woman will explain that after leaving the bathroom, he went to his table, had a drink, and approached a group of Mexicans who were right next to them and chatted with them, without intending to leave and without the young woman , nor his companions, admonished him or made ugly anything that had happened in the bathroom. And he will also recount that when he left Sutton, through the hallway at the front door, he did not see the woman, who at that moment was with her two companions and three employees of the nightclub, reporting that she had been raped in the bathroom of the reserved.
After Alves' new statement, they will ask, if they wish, the prosecutor, the victim's lawyer and the magistrate; and it will be Martell's decision, in agreement with its client, if it responds to the parties, or this time remains silent. At the end, the footballer will be taken to the dungeons of the City of Justice and again to Brians 2 in the first convoy of prisoners that goes to the penitentiary.
After the footballer's new statement, Martell will present this week a new request for release in court accompanied by the report of the images from Sutton's security cameras.
