Spanish court overturns football player Dani Alves' rape conviction on appeal
The former Barça footballer was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last year and has spent more than a year in pre-trial detention for the alleged rape of a young woman in a nightclub.
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The former Barça footballer was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last year and has spent more than a year in pre-trial detention for the alleged rape of a young woman in a nightclub.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/28/spanish-court-overturns-football-player-dani-alves-rape-conviction-on-appeal
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00:00Former Brazil and Barcelona star soccer player Dani Alves had his conviction for sexual assault
00:08overturned by a Spanish court.
00:12He was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment last year for sexually assaulting
00:17a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022.
00:22The top court in Catalonia ruled that there was insufficient evidence to rule out Alves'
00:27presumption of innocence and annulled his conviction.