Robson de Souza, Robinho, 41, completes this Friday (21) the first year of nine of his sentence for the crime of collective rape, committed in Italy, in 2013.
Idol of Santos and Brazilian National Team player in the 2006 and 2010 World Cup, he is serving the Tremembé Prison in the interior of São Paulo, known for housing famous criminals, either because they are public figures or for the crime having had great repercussions and, therefore, are at risk in ordinary prisons.
While his defense works for appeals in the Supreme Court (STF) and the Supreme Court (STJ) to modify the penalty determined by the Italian courts, on the grounds that there is a difference in the legislation of the two countries and that dosimetry should be adapted to what Brazilian criminal law says, the former athlete bets on good behavior and courses to reduce his prison time.
According to the São Paulo State Penal Police, Robinho has good conviviality with other detainees. He participates in sports activities during the sunbathing. The former athlete He concluded the ten modules of the work and citizenship education program, which aims to qualify for work and citizenship, as well as being part of the reading club.
With the reform of his sentence, in addition to the provisions provided for in the criminal execution law on reducing the remission of the sentence based on prison, the former athlete expects, at least, to pass to the semi-open regime soon.
One of the appeals presented by his lawyers with the STJ was on the agenda to be tried this month, but was taken from the agenda on the 13th, as stated in the Court’s open system.
The defense of the former player did not answer calls, nor answered messages to comment if the change was a request made by the defenders, led by lawyer José Eduardo Alckmin, with main office in Brasilia.
The former player has always denied that he committed the crime. Shortly before being arrested in March 2024, he even published a video on his social networks in which he showed photos and prints that, according to him, would prove his innocence.
In addition to its representatives, Robinho has received regular visits from his family members. The list of those who ever went to the prison to see it is not disclosed by SAP (Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration), but there have been those who publicly express his desire to visit him, such as former coach Emerson Leão.
Santos technician when Robinho helped the team win the 2002 Brazilian Championship, Leão told the GE.com website that he likes the former player very much, he has dialogue with him and expects only for a prison permission to visit him. This, however, should not occur because only first -degree relatives (parents, spouses and children) can make visits.
Older of the three children of former striker, Robinho Jr, 17, who recently signed his first professional contract with Santos, usually visit his father once a month.
As with weekends, the former athlete should receive visits on Saturday (22), when he will have a contact with someone out after the death of Rudney Gomes, one of his four friends mentioned in the conviction that led him to the former player to prison.
Rudney died last Tuesday (18), at the age of 46, in the Gonzaga neighborhood of Santos. According to information provided by the 7th Police District and the CPJ (Judicial Police Center) of Santos, the case was registered as suicide.
The death was also confirmed at the scene after the Military Police was fired by the liquidator of the building where he lived. The police called a doctor to find the death.
Still according to the record, a friend of Rudney informed police that he was depressed.
Rudney was a private security of Robinho and was one of those reported by the prosecutor of Italy for involvement in the case of collective rape against an Albanian woman, but was not convicted of the crime.
He and three other men were not tried by the Italian court because they left the country during the investigations and were not notified for the preliminary hearing, which took place on March 31, 2016.
In addition to Robinho, Ricardo Falco was also convicted by the Italian court. The condemnations of the two were determined in the third and last instance, ie no further possibility of appeal.
Falco fulfills his sentence in Guarulhos Penitentiary 1, in Greater São Paulo. P1, as it is called, was chosen for concentrating a profile of prisoners similar to those of Tremembé.
Lorena Machado, Falco’s lawyer, said the case if her client follows in the courts a similar course to Robinho, both in the STF and the STJ, but are in different procedural stages.
