As judicial sources have defined to EFE this Friday, the 2 women who accompanied the sufferer, a cousin and a good friend, have testified this Friday earlier than the pinnacle of the Investigating Court quantity 15 of Barcelona, in an look wherein they’ve endorsed the complainant’s model of the rape.
The witnesses have ratified earlier than the choose what they already declared to the Mossos d’Esquadra and have confirmed that, earlier than taking the complainant to the toilet the place the sexual assault allegedly occurred, the footballer additionally approached them with apparent sexual intent .
The sufferer’s good friend refuses to report
According to what they’ve informed the Justice of the Peace, the Brazilian soccer participant approached one of many younger ladies and put his arms round her waist, whereas the opposite got here to the touch her personal elements, which, they specified, made them really feel “uncomfortable”.
In the course of the assertion, the investigating choose has reminded the younger lady who suffered touching in her personal elements that she has the potential of reporting the details, which the witness has rejected in order to not reduce the relevance of the intense sexual assault, which she suffered her good friend.
The two witnesses have additionally corroborated the complainant’s model of what occurred earlier than and after the alleged sexual assault, which occurred on the night time of December 30 in a personal lavatory in a personal room on the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona.
According to his model, after they had been conversing with a bunch of younger individuals at a desk close to the personal space the place Alves was having drinks with a good friend, a waiter approached them to inform them that some “gents” needed to ask them to cava in that personal space, to which they ended up agreeing after initially rejecting the supply.
Once within the personal room, they had been chatting with Alves and his good friend, at which level the footballer groped them, in accordance with his model, after which the investigator went to the door that related to the personal lavatory and, from there, made a gesture the sufferer to get nearer.
According to the accounts of the witnesses, they didn’t think about that this door led to a personal lavatory -they even thought that it gave entry to an area the place one may smoke-, so when certainly one of them wanted to go to the toilet , he addressed the generals, situated on a decrease ground than the reserved ones.
The sufferer: “They will not imagine me”
After 1 / 4 of an hour, Dani Alves left the personal lavatory and moments later the complainant did, who turned to certainly one of her mates saying, “We’re leaving right here.” Already on the best way out, after they had been ready for his jackets within the cloakroom, he burst into tears as he repeated, “He harm me.”
That was the second when a doorman from the nightclub approached the younger lady to ask her what was mistaken, which prompted Sutton’s safety staff to activate their protocol in opposition to sexual assaults, for which they took the sufferer to a secluded room and known as the Mossos d’Esquadra.
In reality, earlier than the choose the doorman who served the younger lady, the proprietor of Sutton, the director of the room and the 2 waiters who served the drinks within the reserved room have testified this Friday as witnesses.
The testimonials have supported the sufferer’s account, that when she was attended by nightclub workers, she was reluctant to denounce Dani Alves whereas repeating: “They is not going to imagine me.”
inconsistencies
For its half, the footballer’s protection, led by lawyer Cristóbal Martell, has informed EFE that “inconsistencies persist. I mustn’t go any additional on the specific indication of the court docket,” he added.
The soccer participant has been in pretrial detention since January 20 by order of the choose, who ordered his imprisonment when appreciating a excessive threat of flight given his financial capability, the truth that he has twin nationality -Spanish and Brazilian- and the non-existence of extradition agreements between Spain and their nation of origin.
The protection has appealed to the Court of Barcelona his entry into preventive detention, arguing that such a threat of escape doesn’t exist -the footballer voluntarily went to the Mossos who summoned him to testify when he traveled from Mexico to Spain to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law- and that the photographs from the safety cameras deny the sufferer’s model.