Alves' wife declares that her husband came back "smelling of alcohol" the night of the alleged rape

He states that when he got home "he collided with the closet and a small table, and collapsed on the bed."

BARCELONA, 6 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The model Joana Sanz, wife of soccer player Dani Alves, has declared that the night her husband is accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a young woman he returned "very drunk, that is, smelling of alcohol."

Before beginning his interrogation, the Barcelona Court trying the case reminded him that because she was his wife he could choose not to testify, but he decided to do so anyway after being proposed by Alves's defense.

She has stated that she was in Barcelona after a trip to Tenerife from which she returned with Alves the day before, and that they had agreed to meet together that night, but in the end they did not do so because he stayed with the friends he had met with for the night. eat.

Sanz recalled that Alves arrived home around 4 hours, when she was still awake, and that when he entered the bedroom "he collided with the closet and a small table, and collapsed on the bed."

Although she was still awake, she stated that they did not speak: "It was not appropriate to talk to him, to be honest, in the state he arrived in. I considered that it was better to leave it for tomorrow."

"The day after I asked him. He got up super late, he didn't get up. I asked him what had happened and he said he had been with friends," and he explained that during that day they had spoken on WhatsApp until 11 p.m., but in the end they didn't have dinner together.