Dani Alves believes that Sutton's cameras "deny" the complainant and asks to be released from prison

He proposes wearing a geolocation bracelet to be provisionally released

   BARCELONA, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The defense of the soccer player Dani Alves has asked to be released from provisional prison, alleging that the recordings of the security cameras of the Sutton nightclub "refute" the version of the woman who denounced him for allegedly sexually assaulting her in the bathroom of the VIP area of ​​the local night of December 30, 2022.

The appeal against the provisional prison order, presented on Monday by the lawyer Cristóbal Martell and to which Europa Press has had access, denies that Alves closed the bathroom door and relies on the images to affirm that the girl entered two minutes after him, "without Dani Alves clearing the way for him or opening the door".

The woman has denounced that the attack occurred once inside the bathroom, where there are no cameras, but Alves' defense points out that the complainant has described that previous moment "as lived in a climate of terror, fear or microcosm of domination, a scenario that the images deny it in the most radical way", as interpreted by the defense.

The lawyer wants to convince the court of the Audiencia de Barcelona that it will resolve the appeal that there was no "environmental intimidation" to break the will of the woman.

According to Alves' defense, the images "come into conflict and contradiction with the description made by the complainant", after which he also questions the woman's explanation of what happened in the bathroom, which is not recorded.

The soccer player has been in provisional prison without bail since January 20, and since the 23rd he has been in a module for prisoners for sexual crimes in the Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona).

With this appeal, Alves' defense seeks to have him provisionally released on bail and offers to comply with several measures to guarantee that he will not escape: among others, he is willing to wear a telematic bracelet that geolocates him.

He has also proposed to the court that he be forced to appear periodically in court, "even daily", to hand over his passport, that he be prohibited from leaving Spain while the case is being investigated and that a restraining order be imposed on the complainant.

In the letter, Alves' defense admits the "erratic statement" of the player, who has even given different versions of the facts and began by denying that he had met the girl.

The lawyer affirms that the player's initial denial "finds a natural and rudimentary explanation in the will to preserve his wife and children from conduct that is perhaps inappropriate for a sexual relationship."

Among the arguments of the judge who sent him to pretrial detention, the head of the Barcelona Investigating Court 15, was the risk of the player escaping, which Alves' lawyer tries to deny in his appeal.

It exposes as an "indication of the absence of flight risk" that the footballer came from Mexico, where he plays now, to the summons of the Mossos d'Esquadra -who arrested him- knowing that they were investigating him, and affirms that in Barcelona has "personal, family, social and business roots".

Another element of risk that the judge appreciated is that Brazil, where Alves is a national, does not have an extradition agreement with Spain, but it appears from the defense that this does not prevent him from being released provisionally with other measures such as the ones he proposes.