Spanish prosecutors are seeking a nine-year jail term for former Barcelona defender, Dani Alves, accused of raping a young woman in a nightclub.
The prosecutors, in a briefing released on Thursday, also argued that Alves should pay €150,000 ($163,000) to his alleged victim for “physical and psychological” harm and “moral damages.”
A date for his trial has not yet been set. The 40-year-old has maintained that he had consensual s3x with his accuser.
“I have a really clear conscience regarding what happened that night in the bathroom of the VIP area of the Sutton nightclub,” he told Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia in an interview published in June, his first since his arrest.
“What happened and what didn’t happen? And what didn’t happen is that I forced this woman to do anything that we did,” he added.
But when the story first broke—and before he was arrested—Alves, in a television interview, initially denied knowing the woman who filed a police complaint against him on January 2.
The player told La Vanguardia that he had lied at first because he was afraid his wife would leave him if he admitted he had been with another woman.
The indictment offers a detailed description of what, according to prosecutors, happened at the upscale Sutton nightclub.
After meeting at the venue, Alves invited the woman to enter a small enclosure which she said she did not know was a toilet.
Once inside, the footballer showed a “violent attitude” towards the woman, whom he forced to have intercourse with despite her resistance.
At the time of the incident, Alves was on holiday in Barcelona after playing for Brazil at the World Cup in Qatar.
After his arrest, Alves was sacked by his Mexican club, Pumas UNAM.
In a highly successful career, Alves won 42 trophies, including three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and two Copa Americas with Brazil.
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