A former Barcelona footballer was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last year, which has been detained for more than a year for allegedly violating a young woman in a disco in Barcelona.
Catalonia court Former footballer Danny Alvas released from allegations of sexual abuse He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Was more than the former Barcelona player A year of pre -detentionA young woman was accused of raping a young woman in the bathroom of a nightclub in Barcelona.
The Court of Appeal, with three women and a decree The testimony of the victim is not enough In order to maintain the punishment, they insist that the lower court’s praise and the conclusion of the decision it came from, and decentralized the defendant’s right to the assumption of the offender.
The Barcelona High Court assumed that it had proved it Alves had intercourse without consenting to young girl. Pay bail of a million euros.
The court reconsidered the victim’s testimony
Barcelona’s Appeal Court despite the initial punishment Emphasized some contradictions in the victim’s statement. The woman claims to be embarrassed to the Brazilian footballer and that she was the one who took him to the bathroom, but there is a pre -agreement between the two club’s security guard pictures to go to the bathroom.
The judges argued that this “incompatible” violation of the testimony did not affect the meaning of the blame Its version is not completely disqualified Events.
However, the Catalonia court reassessed the court This pointFinish it Lack of synchronization in the first part of the testimony The victim suspects the truth of the version of his events in the disco bathroom with no rooms or witnesses.
The court’s speech states that “evidence cannot be decided as the standards to assume innocence,” and recalls that the sentences need “more rational standard”. Unanimously, the judges decided that Unable to maintain the penalty Due to the lack of adequate evidence.
