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BARCELONA, Spain \u2014 Former Barcelona player Dani Alves won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling Friday.<\/p>\n
Alves was\u00a0found guilty\u00a0in February 2024 of raping a woman in a nightclub in December 2022 and sentenced to four years, six months in prison. The former Brazil and Barcelona defender denied wrongdoing during the three-day trial.<\/p>\n
That court ruled Friday that there was \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d to rule out Alves\u2019 presumption of innocence.<\/p>\n
\u201cDani Alves is innocent, and that has been proven,\u201d his defense lawyer In\u00e9s Guardiola told Catalan radio RAC1. \u201cJustice has finally been served.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Alves trial was the first high-profile case since Spain overhauled its laws in 2022 to make consent central to defining a sex crime in response to an upswell of protests after a gang-rape case during the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016.<\/p>\n
The legislation popularly known as the\u00a0\u201conly yes means yes\u201d law\u00a0defines consent as an explicit expression of a person\u2019s will, making it clear that silence or passivity do not equal consent.<\/p>\n
But the four judges of a Barcelona-based appeals court ruled unanimously to overturn the conviction after reviewing the evidence and testimonies given to the lower court. In their ruling, they wrote that the testimony of the plaintiff \u201cdiffered notably\u201d from evidence of video footage taken before the woman and Alves entered the bathroom where she said he forced her to have sex without her consent.<\/p>\n
Before last year\u2019s trial, the alleged victim told state prosecutors that she had danced with Alves at the nightclub and willingly entered the bathroom, but that later when she wanted to leave he would not let her. She said he slapped her, insulted her and forced her to have sex against her will.<\/p>\n
Alves denied those accusations at the three-day trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe never told me to stop. We were both enjoying ourselves,\u201d Alves said, while repeating that the woman never asked to leave or made any indication that she did not want to have sex with him. He also denied having slapped or insulted her.<\/p>\n
Alves, now 41, was kept in jail from Jan. 20, 2023 until March 2024 until he was released after paying 1 million euros (then $1.2 million) for bail while awaiting his appeal. He also handed over his passports, with prosecutors having argued against releasing him on bail because of a possible flight risk.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors wanted his prison sentence increased to nine years while the victim\u2019s lawyer wanted him to stay behind bars for 12 years.<\/p>\n
This decision could be appealed to the Spanish supreme court in Madrid.<\/p>\n
Alves was one of the most successful players of his generation and won dozens of titles with elite clubs including Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain. He also helped Brazil win two Copa Americas and an Olympic gold medal at age 38. He played at his third World Cup, the only major title he hasn\u2019t won, in 2022. He played for Barcelona from 2008-16, helping the team win three Champions Leagues and six Spanish leagues, and briefly rejoined the club in 2022. He still has a residence near the city.<\/p>\n
He was with Mexican club Pumas when he was arrested. Pumas terminated his contract immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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