The mother of former right-back Daniel Alves, Maria Lucia Alves, celebrated her son’s acquittal in the case of rape for which she was tried in Spain.
This Friday (28), the Session of Appeals of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia for 4 years and six months in prison.
“Thank you my God for everything. Glory to God, all honor and all glory to you my Lord,” published Maria Lucia in the Instagram Stories, with a picture alongside and the former athlete’s father.
The former selection was arrested in January 2023 after paying a bail of 1 million euros, approximately R $ 5.4 million.
The resolution considers that the revoked judgment presented a “series of gaps, inaccuracies, inconsistencies and contradictions of facts, legal assessment and their consequences.” In addition, he added that “of the evidence produced, it cannot be concluded that the standards required by the presumption of innocence have been overcome.”
Thus, the court rejected appeals from the prosecutor who asked for the increase in Daniel Alves’s penalty and ordered the accused’s acquittal. The judges of the case understood that there was “lack of reliability” in the victim’s testimony.
Remember the case
Former right-back Daniel Alves was accused of raping a woman in a nightclub in Spain in December 2022. In January 2023 he was arrested preventively.
In 2024, the former athlete was sentenced to coupling four years and six months in prison. However, at the end of March, Spain’s court upheld the player’s appeal and accepted the defense’s request to await provisional release until the appeal is tried.
The player paid a bail of 1 million euros (approximately R $ 5.4 million at the time).
