Brazil football player Dani Alves sits in court during the first day of his trial in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb 5, 2024. (Photo: Reuters)
BARCELONA – Brazilian footballer Dani Alves was convicted of raping a woman in the restroom of a Barcelona nightclub in 2022 and sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Thursday, which he will appeal.
The top court in Spain’s Catalonia region also ordered Alves, who has been jailed on remand for over a year and repeatedly changed his story, to pay 150,000 euros (US$163,000) to the victim.
“The sentence considers it has been proven that the victim did not consent, and that there…
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