Spanish court overturns Dani Alves' rape conviction on appeal
Former Barcelona player Dani Alves won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling Friday.
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Former Barcelona player Dani Alves won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling Friday.
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00:00Former Barcelona player Dani Alves won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction
00:06as the Spanish court overturned the ruling.
00:08Alves was found guilty in February 2024 of raping a woman in a nightclub in December
00:132022 and sentenced to four years, six months in prison.
00:18The former Brazilian Barcelona defender denied wrongdoing during the three-day trial.
00:23But court ruled Friday that there was insufficient evidence to rule out Alves' presumption of
00:30innocence.
00:31The Alves trial was the first high-profile case since Spain overhauled its laws in 2022
00:38to make consent central to defining a sex crime in response to an upswell of protests
00:45after a gang-rape case during the San Fermin pool-running festival in Pablona in 2016.