Dani Alves confesses to having had consensual relations with a young man who denounced him for sexual assault

the brazilian footballer Daniel Alvesin provisional prison for almost three months, testified again this Monday at his own request before the judge investigating the alleged rape for which he was denounced by a woman in Barcelona.

The player briefly left the jail where he entered on January 20 to make a statement of about half an hour before the investigating judge of the case opened for an alleged crime of sexual assault, which in the Spanish penal code includes rape.

During his appearance, requested by the player himself, Alves once again stated that the sexual relations were consensual, according to judicial sources.

It was the second time that the 39-year-old athlete testified about what happened in the bathroom of a private room at a Barcelona nightclub at the end of December.

The previous one was the day of his arrest, when the judge decided to send him to pretrial detention for, among other things, the high risk of flight and the fact that Brazil does not usually extradite its citizens.

The player’s defense later filed an appeal to request his release before the Barcelona Court, but the court decided in February to maintain his provisional detention pending trial.

After his new statement, the footballer’s defense would be preparing another appeal to request his release again, according to the local press.

On January 2, a young woman reported that Alves had raped her in the private bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub at the end of December. The player, who initially denied knowing her, changed his version of her several times but ended up admitting that they had had a consensual relationship.

AFP.