But to better guarantee security and coexistence in the modules where the prisoners reside, the criminal authorities of Catalonia decided this Monday to transfer Alves, 39, to the adjoining Brians 2.
Despite the fact that there are more inmates in this center, the modules in which the prisoners reside are smaller and have an average occupancy of around 80 inmates, compared to around 200 per module at Brians 1.
This smaller size facilitates internal organization in a case with a high media profile such as Alves, these sources indicated, ruling out that any anomalous event had occurred during the weekend that motivated the decision.
After being evaluated by the professionals of the new center, the ex-soccer player already has an assigned module and will, in principle, spend the first days accompanied by another inmate in his cell.
The relatives of Alves, who denies having committed any crime, are now trying to restructure their defense to file an appeal to reverse the preventive detention order that the judge agreed on Friday “for an open cause for the crime of sexual assault” -which in the Spanish criminal code includes rape-, as requested by the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to a source close to the case, The young woman accuses Alves of having raped her in the bathrooms of a private room at a Barcelona nightclub at the end of December.
According to the same source, the magistrate’s decision also weighed in on the player’s contradictions and the possible flight risk, taking into account the footballer’s high economic capacity and that, at that time, he was residing abroad.
Last Friday after the news was released, Pumas UNAM announced the dismissal of Alves, who had a contract with the Mexican team until June 2023.
(With information from AFP)