By Melody Gross 
Dani Alves’ defense has a plan to avoid a rape conviction. But so far he has (almost) everything against him. First, he didn’t know the girl, then he was in the same place as she, but nothing happened. After a few minutes, the young woman performed a sexual act that he did not want and now, after all, it was all consensual. When Danny Alves had the opportunity to speak before the judge, he spent 45 minutes answering questions, but the different accounts he gave contributed decisively to his arrest.
That was on January 20, and to this day, the Brazilian international player is still in prison on the outskirts of Barcelona, on suspicion of having raped a 23-year-old girl, in a nightclub in Barcelona, in the early hours of December 30, 2022. It is not known Little about the victim: only that justice had protected his identity, that he had already testified in court and that he promptly waived any compensation should he be found guilty. And the most relevant: that from what he told the club staff and the police that night, when he formally complained, a few days later, until he testified before the judge, he had always told the same account. . The defense of Dani Alves saw his attempts to change the protective custody frustrated and the fact that all those involved had already been heard, the authorities had collected all the evidence on the spot and the victim was immediately treated in the hospital, whose report indicated that there were signs. From violence, play against the player. It’s just that the investigation is very advanced, the steps are practically all done, and the court has understood that it is not worth changing protective custody until the trial, which should start later this year. Hence, according to the Spanish press, the new defense plan mainly focuses on three strategies: a judicial battle with psychological tests to be carried out on the victim, new evidence from experts to support the thesis that the sexual relations were consensual and, finally, putting Dani Alves on the stand again In court.Read more at CNN Portugal