BARCELONA — Dani Alves, as a detainee, gave a statement this Friday at the Barcelona Mossos de Esquadra (Catalan police) police station, and went to the City of Justice, where, according to police sources confirmed to ESPNmust be questioned by the judge about the case of alleged sexual abuse that continues against him.
The Pumas soccer player from Liga MX, detained by the police’s Unit Against Sexual Assaults, was taken by a patrol car to the judicial premises while waiting for the head of Court Number 15 to determine the measures to be taken, not ruling out that He could be questioned this Friday or remain in custody, his passport being withdrawn or even remaining in the cells until such interrogation.
Alves arrived at the police station early in the morning accompanied by his lawyer and escorted by members of the police. Shortly after ten, after giving a statement, he was put in the patrol car and taken to the court.
The case of alleged sexual assault arose at dawn from December 30 to 31, when a woman reported to the security services of a Barcelona nightclub that the Brazilian had abused her, touching her under her underwear.
Immediately those responsible for the premises contacted the police, who went to the scene and the protocol for these cases was launched through the police themselves, who took statements from several witnesses and obtained the images from the security cameras. .
The woman filed a complaint against Alves on January 2 while the footballer himself denied the facts, assuring on a television program that “I don’t know who this lady is. I don’t know her, nor have I seen her in my life.”
