The second day of the trial of Dani Alves, accused of sexual assault and who faces 12 years in prison, gave way to the testimony of the manager of the Barcelona nightclub in which the Brazilian met the complainant.
Incarcerated since January 2023, after being accused of rape by a woman in a Barcelona nightclub, Dani Alves attended the second day of his trial on Tuesday. His friend Bruno, who accompanied him in the evening, assured that they had drunk a lot since the beginning of the afternoon. His wife Joana said that the former Barça right-back came home very drunk, even bumping into a cupboard before collapsing on the bed.
The manager of the nightclub gave important testimony. The complainant quickly came to tell what she had experienced in the toilets of a VIP room. Two women came to confide in the security service when the owner of the establishment met the complainant, who was completely disoriented. Dani Alves then walked past them and the complainant pointed at him.
“She wanted to go out and couldn’t go out”
“She told me that no one was going to believe her, that she had gone into the bathroom on purpose and then she wanted to get out and couldn’t get out. But no one was going to believe her », says the director, who took the girls to a quieter room. The complainant assured that there had been penetration. An employee present during this interview explains that the woman was crying ” a lot “.
Dani Alves will be questioned on Wednesday. The prosecutor is asking for nine years in prison for sexual assault with penetration, while the plaintiff’s lawyer is demanding the maximum sentence of 12 years. The lawyer of the 40-year-old Auriverde requests acquittal, but, by trying to demonstrate the level of alcoholism of the accused, she leaves the door open to a minimum prison sentence with the mitigating circumstance of drunkenness .
