{"id":70851,"date":"2023-11-23T19:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=70851"},"modified":"2023-11-23T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:53:51","slug":"spanish-prosecutors-seek-9-year-jail-term-for-ex-brazil-star-alves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/spanish-prosecutors-seek-9-year-jail-term-for-ex-brazil-star-alves\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish prosecutors seek 9-year jail term for ex-Brazil star Alves"},"content":{"rendered":"

By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spanish prosecutors are seeking a nine-year jail term for former Brazil star Dani Alves who is accused of raping a young woman at a\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0nightclub in December 2022.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have also demanded the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain full-back, who has been in jail in\u00a0Spain\u00a0since his arrest in January,\u00a0pay his alleged victim 150,000 euros ($163,500) in compensation, according to a copy of his indictment seen by AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A date for his trial had not yet been set. The 40-year-old has maintained that he had consensual sex with his accuser.<\/p>\n

“I have a really clear conscience regarding what happened that night in the bathroom of the VIP area of the Sutton nightclub,” he told Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia in an interview published in June, his first since his arrest.<\/p>\n

“What happened and what didn’t happen. And what didn’t happen is that I forced this woman to do anything that we did,” he added.<\/p>\n

But when the story first broke — and before he was arrested — Alves in a television interview initially denied knowing the woman who filed a police complaint against him on January 2.<\/p>\n

“I was dancing and having a good time without invading anyone’s space,” he told Spanish TV channel Antena 3<\/p>\n

“I don’t know who this lady is. How could I do that to a woman? No.”<\/p>\n

Alves told La Vanguardia that he had lied at first because he was afraid his wife would leave him if he admitted he had been with another woman.<\/p>\n

The indictment offers a detailed description of what, according to prosecutors, happened at the upscale Sutton nightclub.<\/p>\n

After meeting at the venue, Alves invited the woman to enter a small enclosure which she says she did not know was a toilet.<\/p>\n

Once inside, the footballer showed a “violent attitude” towards the woman, who he forced to have intercourse despite her resistance.<\/p>\n

Under Spain’s sexual consent law passed last year, the charge of sexual assault takes in a wide array of crimes from online abuse and groping to rape, each with different possible punishments. A case of rape can carry a maximum sentence of 15 years.<\/p>\n

At the time of the incident, Alves was on holiday in Barcelona after playing for Brazil at the World Cup in\u00a0Qatar.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Alves was sacked by his Mexican club Pumas UNAM.<\/p>\n

In a highly successful career, Alves won 42 trophies, including three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and two Copa Americas with Brazil.<\/p>\n

At last year’s World Cup finals in Qatar he became the oldest player to represent Brazil at football’s showpiece tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By AFP Spanish prosecutors are seeking a nine-year jail term for former Brazil star Dani Alves who is accused of raping a young woman at a\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0nightclub in December 2022. Prosecutors have also demanded the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain full-back, who has been in jail in\u00a0Spain\u00a0since his arrest in January,\u00a0pay his alleged victim 150,000 euros ($163,500) in compensation, according to a copy of his indictment seen by AFP on Thursday. A date for his trial had not yet been set. The 40-year-old has maintained that he had consensual sex with his accuser. “I have a really clear conscience regarding what happened that night in the bathroom of the VIP area of the Sutton nightclub,” he told Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1390,1981],"class_list":["post-70851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-dani-alves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}