The alleged sexual assault of the Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves towards a young woman in a nightclub on December 30 continues to give people something to talk about and now a Spanish lawyer has assured that the former FC Barcelona player could spend up to a year in jail while waiting for it to take place. the trial that determines his innocence or guilt.
In an interview for the 20 Minutes portal, the Spanish lawyer Manuel Iglesias Prada explained that due to the complexity of the case, it is likely that it will take too long and a probable time for it would be at least a year to wait for the trial to take place. cape.
“It’s going to be long (the Alves trial). It has two phases. The first is the instruction, where the crime is determined. There will be different judges, those who instruct and those who judge. It is not a complex issue, but with good luck for him, at least one year (in prison) ”, he expressed.
However, a detail that plays against Dani Alves is that because he is someone with a high risk of flight, there is a high probability that he will remain in jail for all that time and be denied parole again.
“Risk of flight, strong economic capacity, has no ties to Spain and is from a country like Brazil that does not have an extradition agreement,” was the response of Iglesias Pradas to justify a hypothetical request by Alves’ defense for the freedom of the winger while the process lasts.
On the other hand, another expert in criminal cases for sexual crimes, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, declared that as long as the victim’s statement is concise and does not change in his speech, it is very likely that Alves will remain in prison.
“If the complainant’s statement is persistent, consistent and credible, and is corroborated by a medical report and there are cameras that prove that the sexual act has taken place, there is a great possibility that Mr. Alves will not be released until the celebration of the oral trial,” he explained.
At the moment Dani Alves remains in preventive detention and in the next few days new details about his current situation in prison could arrive.