Prosecutors and the victim’s lawyer Ester Garcia appealed the decision to grant Alves bail but a Barcelona court said on Wednesday it had rejected all appeals
11 April,2024 07:45 AM IST | Madrid | AFP
Alves, 40, was last month sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for raping a young woman in the VIP bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub
26 March,2024 07:40 AM IST | Barcelona | AFP
Rodrigues said in a statement that the executives at governing body CBF and its coaching staff feel sorry for “the victims of the brutal crimes committed by the former footballers”
24 March,2024 07:55 AM IST | Sao Paulo | AP
Robinho was jailed Thursday after a high court authorized his nine-year jail sentence from a trial in Italy to be served in Brazil. This week, Alves got the opportunity to leave prison on bail while awaiting the appeal of his conviction for rape
23 March,2024 06:15 PM IST | Sao Paulo | AP
Neymar da Silva Santos said in a statement on behalf of his family that they financially supported Alves during his trial, but that they won’t do it again now that the former player was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022
23 March,2024 07:48 AM IST | Sao Paulo | AP
“The victim did not consent and there is evidence that, beyond the complainant’s testimony, permits the rape to be considered proven,” the Barcelona court wrote in a statement
23 February,2024 06:49 AM IST | Barcelona | AFP
After two days of listening to testimony from the alleged victim, witnesses, and experts, Alves told a Spanish court on Wednesday that their encounter had been consensual
09 February,2024 08:00 AM IST | Barcelona | AP
Alves, now 40, was arrested on Jan. 20, 2023 after answering a police summons during a visit to Spain. Alves' requests for bail were denied because the court considered him a flight risk, even though he offered to hand over his passport and wear a tracking device
05 February,2024 04:48 PM IST | Barcelona | AP
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
21 December,2023 08:00 AM IST | Barcelona | AFP
Prosecutors have also demanded the ex-Barcelona defender, who has been in jail in Spain since his arrest in January, pay his alleged victim 1,50,000 euros ($163,500) in compensation, according to a copy of his indictment
24 November,2023 07:32 AM IST | Barcelona | AFPADVERTISEMENT
