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“I have a very clear conscience about what happened that morning in the bathroom of the Sutton discotheque. What happened and what did not happen. And what did not happen is that I forced that woman to do anything we did “, Alves explained to the newspaper from the prison about 40 km from Barcelona where he entered at the end of January.<\/p>\n
In the extensive conversation, published the week after the court rejected another appeal from his defense, the former Bar\u00e7a or Pumas player repeated that if he changed his version several times, going so far as to assure in a video that he did not know the complainant at all, it was for trying to preserve their marriage.<\/p>\n
“I was afraid of losing Joana and that’s why I lied. I fought desperately to save my marriage from infidelity, regardless of the consequences I’m paying for,” he explained.<\/p>\n
Alves, 40, is in pretrial detention for an open case for an alleged crime of sexual assault, which in Spain includes rape. A young woman accuses him of having allegedly forced him to have sex in the private toilets of a Barcelona nightclub at the end of December.<\/p>\n
“There is not a single mark on her body that explains the violence with which she says that I moved her in the bathroom,” defends Alves, who assures that the relations were at all times consented to by both of them.<\/p>\n
The woman’s version has remained stable and was once again considered to have “sufficient reliability traits” by the magistrates of the Court of Barcelona who a few days ago, taking into account the risk of flight, rejected the last resort of the defense of the athlete to be released pending trial.<\/p>\n
The case is followed with great interest in Spain, where this Wednesday the interview with Alves was echoed in various media, arousing the concern of feminist sectors.<\/p>\n
“Tribalizing #MachoViolence, supporting the aggressor, discrediting the victim, causes more harm to her and to others, feeds the culture of rape,” the government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, wrote on Twitter in reaction to the words of the author of the interview, who considered on television that the description made by Alves before entering the toilets was more consistent than that of the complainant.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n