Brazil soccer player Dani Alves sits in court during the first day of his trial in Barcelona, Spain, February 5, 2024. Alberto Estevez/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
A Barcelona court has ruled that former Brazilian international soccer player Dani Alves could be conditionally released from prison on a bail of $1.08 million (one million euros) following his conviction last month for sexual assault, the court press office said in a statement Wednesday.
The Barcelona provincial court sentenced Alves on February 22 to four-and-a-half years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in one of the city’s nightclubs in late December 2022.
In the court’s 13-page ruling on the bail, viewed by CNN, the court said Alves has already served 14 months in prison, including in pre-trial detention since his arrest in Barcelona in January 2023, and more recently, since his conviction.
Alves’ lawyer has announced an appeal of the conviction and the sentence. In the bail ruling, the court said that if Alves actually paid the $1.08 million bail, he then would have to surrender his Spanish and Brazilian passports and report weekly to the court.
The court also ruled that the former Barcelona player could not get closer than a kilometre (roughly 0.6 miles) to the victim, nor have any communication with her of any kind.
Two judges approved the bail ruling, while a third judge dissented, and the decision can be appealed, the court said.
CNN has reached out to lawyers for Alves and the victim but did not immediately get a response from either.
The 40-year-old Alves is one of the most decorated soccer players of his generation, winning domestic titles in Spain, Italy and France. He won three Champions League titles with Barcelona in 2009, 2011 and 2015 and the Copa América with Brazil in 2007 and 2019.
In the 61-page sentence from Alves’ trial, which was 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 in December 2022.
That was “in spite of the plaintiff saying no, that she wanted to leave,” the judges added. Alves insisted during the trial that the sexual relations were consensual.
足球員丹尼·阿爾維斯早些時候被判犯有性侵犯罪，巴塞隆納法院允許其獲得 100 萬歐元保釋
巴塞隆納法院新聞辦公室週三在一份聲明中表示，前巴西國腳丹尼·阿爾維斯上個月因性侵犯被定罪後，可以有條件保釋，保釋金為 108 萬美元（100 萬歐元）。
巴塞隆納省法院於 2 月 22 日判處阿爾維斯四年半監禁，罪名是 2022 年 12 月下旬在該市的一家夜總會對一名婦女進行性侵犯。
在 CNN 看到的法院長達 13 頁的保釋裁決中，法院表示阿爾維斯已在監獄服刑 14 個月，包括自 2023 年 1 月在巴塞隆納被捕以來以及最近被定罪以來的審前拘留。
阿爾維斯的律師已宣布對定罪和刑罰提出上訴。 在保釋裁決中，法院表示，如果阿爾維斯確實支付了108萬美元的保釋金，那麼他將必須交出西班牙和巴西護照，並每周向法院報到。
法院還裁定，這位前巴塞隆納球員不得距離受害者一公里（約0.6英里）以內，也不得與她進行任何形式的交流。
法院表示，兩名法官批准了保釋裁決，而第三名法官則表示反對，該決定可以上訴。
CNN（CNN）已聯繫阿爾維斯和受害者的律師，但沒有立即得到任何回應。
40 歲的阿爾維斯是同代人中獲得榮譽最多的足球運動員之一，曾在西班牙、義大利和法國贏得國內冠軍。 他於 2009 年、2011 年和 2015 年隨巴塞隆納贏得了三個冠軍聯賽冠軍，並於 2007 年和 2019 年與巴西隊一起贏得了美洲杯冠軍。
在CNN 看到的阿爾維斯審判中長達61 頁的判決中，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”以執行2022 年 12 月發生的性侵害事件。
法官補充說，「儘管原告拒絕，她還是想離開」。 阿爾維斯在審判期間堅稱性關係是雙方自願的
Source: CNN
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