by The declaration of Juana Sanz, Dani Alves’ wife, in the trial against her husband in the Barcelona Court, has supported one of the main Arguments of the player’s defense to try to mitigate a possible conviction.. The player maintains that the relationships were consensual, but her lawyer, Inés Guardiola, has introduced in her letter the mitigating circumstance that the footballer He had consumed a lot of alcohol the night he met the complainant at the Sutton nightclub. In this way, he will ask that the mitigating factor of alcoholism be applied to reduce a hypothetical sentence.
Along these lines, Sanz explained in the trial that, when the player arrived home around four in the morning, “it smelled like alcohol“, he was “very drunk”, He crashed into the bedroom closet and collapsed on the bed.. She was awake but they did not speak “because in the state she was in it was not possible,” she said.
Sanz recalled that she has been married to Alves since 2017 and that their family home is in Barcelona. As she explained, a At the end of 2022, her mother was very ill and for that reason she had traveled with her husband to Tenerife, Just when he had just returned from the soccer World Cup. “As a couple we were fine,” he explained in court. Sanz added that the two returned to Barcelona on December 29 together, despite the fact that, until this moment, the information that had emerged about the case placed it that morning in the Canary Islands.
“He arrived at four”
Sanz has stated that on December 30, Alves went to eat with his friends. “Then we had met for dinner but I didn’t see him until four in the morning, when he got home”. He did so “very drunk” and collapsed on the bed. The model added that during the night she had exchanged messages with her husband. The next day she woke up late and explained that she had been with her friends at the Clinic’s Taverna restaurant. “He didn’t tell me anything” about Sutton, ha assured.
The model has also explained that the last message the player sent her was around eleven at night and that it is false that they had argued, as has emerged.
“I drank a lot”
Along the same lines, the friend who accompanied Alves at Sutton, Bruno Brasil, stressed that the player was drunk and that was why he did not drive to the nightclub.. As he explained, he and two other colleagues had stayed for lunch that day and throughout the afternoon they were consuming bottles of wine, whiskey and gin and tonics, until they separated.
In his statement, Brazil highlighted that he drove the car that night to the nightclub, since the player had “drank a lot” throughout the afternoon and added that they met the victim and her friends in the booth and that Alves was dancing. . with them.
“He didn’t explain anything to me”
When questioned by the prosecution, he reported that he saw the player go to the bathroom and that the complainant came later, leaving him outside with his friends. Minutes later, he added, Alves came out of the bathroom and started dancing with him and the girls.. Afterwards, the complainant and his cousin said goodbye, while he and the player continued in the booth for a while longer.
Later, they decided to leave, since they had consumed too much.. He drove again to take Alves to his house. When leaving the nightclub, it was confirmed that the hallway was very dark and that he did not see the complainant crying next to the doorman. Alves, he added, He didn’t explain what had happened in the bathroom.
A photo with a table full of bottles.
To questions from the complainant’s lawyer, The witness has admitted that the player did not tell him why he had gone to the bathroom. He has also assured that he believes that the victim and his companion did know who Dani Alves was because “many people were trying to take photos” in the booth.
In this second session, the friends with whom Alves stayed that afternoon, along with Brazil, have also testified. One of the witnesses, Ulises Rocha, He has provided an image captured with his mobile phone in which the four friends are seen in front of a table full of bottles of alcohol.. The other acquaintance has also explained that “the state in which Alves entered the restaurant is not the same as the one in which he left.” Alves’ defense has delivered to the court as evidence the invoices from the restaurants and bars where they were to prove this consumption.
“I didn’t see him like always”
Together with the wife and friends of the accused, it has also been possible listen to another statement which supports the thesis of the player’s drunkenness. The person in charge of the Sutton’s room that night explained that he served Alves, a regular customer. “That day I didn’t see it like always,” he said. The witness believes that “he had drunk or had something.” This employee was also with the victim after the attack and asked her if she wanted to report it, although she repeated that she did not, since “no one was going to believe her.”
