The private prosecutor of the 21-year-old woman who accused former FC Barcelona footballer Daniel Alves of sexually harassing him at Barcelona’s Sutton nightclub last December has demanded that the athlete be sentenced to 12 years in prison . jail.
Lawyer Ester Garcia Lopes, the victim’s defender, requested this punishment for the player in view of the trial that will take place in the Barcelona court, according to the document accessed by EFE.
In addition to the crime of assault, which requires a prison sentence, the footballer is also accused in the private case of bodily harm, which carries a fine of 13,500 euros.
The lawyer demanded that Alves compensate the victim a total of 150,000 euros for the physical and psychological consequences, because the young woman suffers worldwide from symptoms consistent with high-intensity post-traumatic stress disorder.
He further requested a ban on Alves from approaching and communicating with the victim within a radius of a thousand meters for a period of ten years, which is higher than the sentence imposed, and for a security measure from Monitored Freedom for same period.
Finally, he urged the court to take measures to protect the young woman on the day of the trial, such as: B. professional monitoring and avoiding visual confrontations with the suspect, as well as conducting the trial without a hearing .
Prosecutors are seeking 9 years in prison against Alves
For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had already submitted its order in November, demanded a nine-year prison sentence for the former Pumas player and compensation for the victim of 150 thousand euros, the same amount as the private prosecutor’s office had demanded. It.
According to the prosecutor, the rape took place on the night of December 30, 2022, in a VIP area of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, where the victim sat next to a cousin and a friend, followed by Alves and a man accompanying him. They invite you to this private space for a glass of champagne.
The State Department says the women initially declined the invitation but eventually accepted. the ‘eagerness’ of Alves and his friend, and the five ended up drinking champagne, talking and dancing.
According to the prosecutor, Alves went to a door exclusively accessible to customers in the reserved area and gestured to the young woman to come closer, which the victim did, without knowing which private area he had just entered.
Once there, he adds, the footballer took her into a small bathroom and closed the door without letting her leave even though she asked, and the Brazilian “began to pleasure her with a lustful spirit and with the clear intention to fulfill his desires. .”sexual desires, groping.” .’
The player felt the victim’s entire body, tried to give her oral sex in vain because the victim – who was in a situation of “fear and terror” – resisted and ultimately penetrated her through the vagina without a condom, the Public Prosecution Service said . .
Alves left the bathroom “immediately afterwards”, leaving the young woman there, who came out a little later and went to her cousin, who asked her to leave the place, although she burst into tears as she left and was attended to by a the nightclub became an employee who activated the assault protocol.
(With information from EFE)
Source: La Neta Neta
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