Dani Alves handed four and half years in prison sentence for sexual assault in Barcelona nightclub. Photo: Getty image.
Former Barcelona and Brazil soccer player Dani Alves was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, a Barcelona court ruled Thursday.
The Barcelona provincial court, where the trial was held earlier this month, said there was proof that the assault was not consensual, the court press office said in a statement Thursday.
“The sentence considers that it has been proven that the victim did not consent and that there is evidence, in addition to the testimony of the plaintiff, to consider the rape proven,” the statement said.
Alves, 40, was arrested in January 2023, following the events at a Barcelona nightclub in late December 2022, and he has been held in prison pre-trial since then. He insisted during the trial that the sexual relations were consensual.
In the 61-page sentence, seen by CNN, the three-judge panel wrote that they “considered proven that the accused abruptly grabbed the plaintiff, threw her to the floor and prevented her from moving” to carry out the sexual assault.
The judges added, that was “in spite of the plaintiff saying no, that she wanted to leave.”
The court also ordered Alves to pay $162,700 (150,000 euros) to the woman in damages.
A lawyer for Alves, Inés Guardiola, told reporters outside of the courthouse that the former Barça star will appeal the ruling.
Alves is one of the most decorated soccer players of his generation, having won domestic titles in Spain, Italy and France. He also won three Champions League titles with the Blaugrana.
丹尼·阿爾維斯因性侵犯被判處四年半監禁
巴塞隆納法院週四裁定，前巴塞隆納和巴西足球運動員丹尼·阿爾維斯因在巴塞隆納夜總會性侵犯一名女性而被判四年半監禁。
巴塞隆納省法院新聞辦公室週四在一份聲明中表示，本月稍早進行審判的巴塞隆納省法院表示，有證據表明這起襲擊事件並非雙方自願的。
聲明稱：“判決認為，已經證明受害者不同意，除了原告的證詞之外，還有證據認為強姦案已得到證實。”
40 歲的阿爾維斯在 2022 年 12 月下旬巴塞隆納一家夜總會發生事件後於 2023 年 1 月被捕，此後他一直被關押在監獄預審。
他在審判期間堅稱性關係是雙方自願的。
在CNN看到的長達61頁的句子中，三名法官組成的陪審團寫道，他們「認為已證明被告突然抓住原告，將她扔到地板上並阻止她移動」以實施性侵犯。
法官補充說，“儘管原告說不，她還是想離開。”
法院還命令阿爾維斯向該女子支付 162,700 美元（150,000 歐元）的損害賠償。
阿爾維斯的律師伊內斯·瓜迪奧拉在法院外告訴記者，這位前巴薩球星將對裁決提出上訴。
阿爾維斯是他這一代中獲得榮譽最多的足球員之一，曾在西班牙、義大利和法國贏得國內冠軍。 他還隨巴薩贏得了三次歐冠冠軍
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