Brazilian football player Dani Alves will remain in jail after a Spanish court denied another of his requests to be freed on bail. This is the second time Alves has been denied bail amid an ongoing investigation against him after the footballer was accused of sexual assault. The Barcelona court said Alves continues to be a flight risk and should stay detained until the investigation concludes. The court had previously denied a similar request by Alves’ defence team in May.
Alves was provisionally detained in January after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a nightclub in Barcelona on Dec. 30. He has denied wrongdoing and said sex with the accuser was consensual.
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A judge ordered the former Barcelona defender to be jailed without bail after analyzing the initial probe by authorities and hearing testimony from Alves, the alleged victim and witnesses. A trial date has not been set.
Alves’ lawyers had tried to discredit testimony by the alleged victim and other witnesses by presenting security camera footage showing that Alves and the victim were flirting with each other at the nightclub. But the court said in its ruling on Monday that the flirting should not “in any way justify an eventual sexual assault.”
The lawyers had reiterated that Alves was not a flight risk and would accept any court-imposed measures, such as turning in his passports and wearing a tracking device, if freed on bail. They said Alves and his family had plans to live in Barcelona, but the court dismissed the argument because his children were only registered as residents a few weeks ago.
Under Spain’s sexual consent law passed last year, sexual assault takes in a wide array of crimes from online abuse and groping to rape, each with different possible punishments. A case of rape can receive a maximum sentence of 15 years.
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