Former Brazil soccer star Dani Alves will go on trial in Spain for allegedly raping a lady at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022 between February 5-7, a Spanish courtroom stated Wednesday.

Prosecutors are searching for a nine-year jail time period for the previous Barcelona full-back, who has been in jail in Spain since his arrest in January, and demanded he pay his alleged sufferer 150,000 euros ($163,500) in compensation

The 40-year-old has maintained he had consensual intercourse together with his accuser.

“I have a really clear conscience regarding what happened that night in the bathroom of the VIP area of the Sutton nightclub,” he advised Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia in an interview revealed in June, his first since his arrest.

“What happened and what didn’t happen. And what didn’t happen is that I forced this woman to do anything that we did,” he added.

But when the story first broke — and earlier than he was arrested — Alves in a tv interview initially denied realizing the lady who filed a police criticism in opposition to him on January 2.

“I was dancing and having a good time without invading anyone’s space,” he advised Spanish TV channel Antena 3

“I don’t know who this lady is. How could I do that to a woman? No.”

Alves advised La Vanguardia that he had lied at first as a result of he was afraid his spouse would go away him if he admitted he had been with one other girl.

The high-profile trial will happen in Barcelona, the courtroom which has led the investigation into the affair stated in an announcement.

Prosecutors allege Alves invited the lady to enter a small enclosure on the upscale Sutton nightclub, which she says she didn’t know was a rest room.

Once inside, the footballer confirmed a “violent attitude” in direction of the lady, who he compelled to have intercourse regardless of her resistance, prosecutors say in line with the indictment.

Under Spain’s sexual consent regulation handed final 12 months, the cost of sexual assault takes in a wide selection of crimes from on-line abuse and groping to rape, every with totally different doable punishments. A case of rape can carry a most sentence of 15 years.

At the time of the incident, Alves was on vacation in Barcelona after enjoying for Brazil on the World Cup in Qatar.

After his arrest, Alves was sacked by his Mexican membership Pumas UNAM.

In a extremely profitable profession, Alves gained 42 trophies, together with three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and two Copa Americas with Brazil.

At final 12 months’s World Cup finals in Qatar he turned the oldest participant to characterize Brazil at soccer’s showpiece match.

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