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For: EFE Posted Jan 23, 2023, 10:02 am EST
The former player of FC Barcelona and Pumas de la UNAM, Dani Alves, was transferred to the entrance module of the Brians 2 prison, which has less crowded and safer spaces; In the next few hours, prison staff will assign you a cell.
Penitentiary sources reported that the Brazilian soccer player had been in the admission module of the Brians 1 prison in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona) since last Friday, when a judge from that city ordered his admission to prison without bail, accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, the night of December 30.
The Secretary of Criminal Measures of the Department of Justice of the Generalitat has decided this Monday to transfer Dani Alves to Brians 2, where Prisoners already convicted and in pretrial detention live togetherbecause this enclosure has smaller residential modules that better guarantee their safety and coexistence with the rest of the inmates.
In fact, the modules of Brians 2 house about 80 inmateson average, while in Brians 1, where the footballer was previously, about 200 prisoners usually live together.
Once transferred, the player has been placed back in the income module, where the professionals from the center will visit him, who will assign him a cell, something for which the type of crime committed is not taken into account.
Alves has been subjected throughout the weekend to the usual procedures for admission to prisonhe was frisked and his belongings searched after his identity was verified by prison workers.
Subsequently, he was visited by health professionals and interviewed by members of the treatment team who must decide in which group of inmates the inmate is included.
Meanwhile, the soccer player’s defense is working on the procedural strategy to try to get him released on provisional release, for which he is considering filing an appeal against his imprisonment.
These steps, however, are waiting for Alves to decide whether to change his lawyer, as his entourage suggested after the lawyer who represented him, Miraida Puente, could not prevent the judge from ordering prison without bail for the athlete, they have reported to EFE legal sources.
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