Official: Alves was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for rape

Live broadcast, February 22 Alves was sentenced today in the case of alleged sexual assault, and the 12th Chamber of the Barcelona Court convicted Alves of rape and was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison, plus 5 years of supervision after his release, and he needs to compensate the victim 150,000 euros, and he will not be able to contact the victim for the next 9 and a half years.

The five-year supervision will be carried out immediately upon Alves' release from prison (supervision is a conditional release that will still partially restrict personal liberty) and will not be allowed to work in relation to minors for five years after his release from prison. Alves may appeal this decision.

In an earlier trial, the prosecution asked for a nine-year sentence for Alves and the victim for a 12-year sentence.

Alves is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of December 30, 2022.

In January 2023, Alves was investigated by the police on suspicion of sexual assault, and as multiple pieces of evidence were revealed, he was arrested in Barcelona around the 20th of that month.

Since then, Alves has been subjected to preventive detention for more than a year, and the courts have rejected his bail applications three times, deeming that he may have absconded.

Since the investigation began, Alves has provided four different versions of the course of events, and at the final trial, Alves insisted that he and the victim "had consensual sexual intercourse and the victim did not tell him to stop." ”

In the end, the court found the victim's statement to be the facts: "The defendant violently grabbed the informant, threw her to the ground, and prevented her from moving, and sexually assaulted her vaginally, even though the informant said no, and wanted to leave." ”