The trial against the Brazilian footballer Dani Alves began this Monday at the Barcelona Court, with the first testimonies of the events that took place on the night of December 30 to 31, 2022 at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona.
The cousin of the victim of the alleged sexual assault by Dani Alves, who along with a friend was with her the night of the rape in the nightclub, reported that she felt uncomfortable: “They danced very close to us. She put her hand on me and touched my intimate area.”
And he added: “I know that the complainant also put his hand in the intimate area. I separated because she had tried with one and another, and my cousin came and she told me that he insisted a lot that they go somewhere and she didn’t want to leave.
He also reported that he saw Alves go to a door, which he thought was an exit to the outside and that he was waiting for the victim, and that she herself told him to go talk to him.
The witness has also said that she was alone with a friend of Alves and that they were talking and they were on Instagram and, after a few minutes, she saw the door open and the footballer came out, but her cousin took a few minutes and He saw that “he had a very bad face.”
“I asked her if she was okay and if she wanted us to leave, and she told me she needed to leave. We left there and I wrote to my friend telling her that she (the victim) needed to leave. “She just told me that she had hurt her a lot, that she had cum inside her,” she said.
And she stated that Alves’s friend wrote to her on Instagram at 5 o’clock and told her that he was happy to meet her and that “if she needed anything, she would be there,” and she wanted to be nice and replied with a message of ‘happy new year.’ ‘, although he ended up unfollowing him.
The victim was crying “inconsolably”
The young woman who accuses Dani Alves of rape left the bathroom of the Sutton nightclub crying “heartbroken” and telling her friends that the footballer had done “a lot of damage” to her, but initially she was reluctant to report him while repeating: “I just want to go to home, you’re not going to believe me.”
This was reported this Monday at the Barcelona Court, through tears, by one of the two friends who accompanied the victim at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30, 2022, who added that Alves had a “slobbery” attitude. ”.
According to the witness, when the 23-year-old victim left the bathroom of the booth where she had entered with Alves, she couldn’t stop crying “heartbroken” and “very nervous,” so she asked her friends to leave the nightclub. while insisting that the footballer had done him “a lot of damage.”
The witness added that the complainant just wanted to go home and that it took her and her friend “horrors” to convince her to report: “I just kept repeating, they’re not going to believe me, they’re not going to believe me.”
The days after the events, he added, the young woman remained in shock, still not wanting to report, and currently she continues to suffer anxiety, she barely leaves the house, she feels watched and has lost the “joy” that characterized her, as she becomes obsessive “with everything”.
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