{"id":8702,"date":"2023-11-14T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/14\/brazil-full-back-dani-alves-to-stand-trial-for-sexual-assault-in-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:42:05","slug":"brazil-full-back-dani-alves-to-stand-trial-for-sexual-assault-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/14\/brazil-full-back-dani-alves-to-stand-trial-for-sexual-assault-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil full-back Dani Alves to stand trial for sexual assault in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves will face trial in Spain on charges of sexual assault of a woman in a Barcelona nightclub last December, a Spanish court said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Alves was arrested on January 20 and has been held in a prison outside Barcelona. If found guilty he could face a jail sentence of four to 15 years. He has maintained that he had consensual sex with his accuser.<\/p>\n

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In a document signed by three judges the investigation court No. 15 in Barcelona, which is yet to set a date for the proceedings to begin, said there were sufficient grounds for Alves to stand trial, following requests by the public prosecutor and the woman\u2019s lawyer. <\/p>\n

In August, judges formally indicted Alves after finding evidence of wrongdoing by the 40-year-old player. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe statements of the alleged victim and the witnesses statements and experts\u2019 reports that appear in the case must be considered as sufficient for this purpose, without prejudice to the final outcome following the plenary phase,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n

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If found guilty, Dani Alves, the former Barcelona defender could face a jail sentence of four to 15 years. He has maintained that he had consensual sex with his accuser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}