The daddy of Brazil star Neymar stated Thursday that his household will not pay the €1 million ($1.1 million) required to bail Dani Alves out of a Spanish jail the place the previous Brazil defender awaits the results of an attraction to his rape conviction.
Neymar da Silva Santos stated in an announcement on behalf of his household that they financially supported Alves throughout his trial, however that they will not do it once more now that the previous participant was discovered responsible of raping a girl in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022.
“For us, for my household, this matter is over. Full cease,” Neymar da Silva Santos stated.
The 40-year-old Alves was sentenced to 4 years, six months in jail. He’s being held at a jail outdoors Barcelona.
Neymar’s father did not specify how a lot they gave Alves however added it is a “completely different scenario” now as a result of the three-judge panel on the Barcelona Provincial Court docket dominated in opposition to Alves.
“With the Spanish courtroom ruling for his conviction, there’s hypothesis and an try and affiliate my title and my son’s to a matter that’s not inside our attain any longer,” Neymar’s father stated within the household’s assertion.
He added that he hopes Alves “can discover all of the solutions he appears for in his circle of relatives.”
The jail time period is close to the bottom sentence for a rape conviction, which when the rape happened was penalized by 4 to 12 years beneath Spanish regulation. The courtroom in its sentence stated it thought-about favorably for Alves that he had “earlier than the trial paid the courtroom €150,000 to be given to the sufferer with none situations hooked up.”
Neymar and Alves have been teammates at Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and for Brazil. Neymar now performs for Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
Alves, who has denied wrongdoing within the case, has remained in custody since being arrested in January 2023.
Alves’ prior requests to be launched on bail have been denied as a result of the courtroom deemed him a flight danger.
Brazil doesn’t extradite its personal residents when they’re sentenced in different international locations.
As a bail situation, Alves can be required at hand over his Brazilian and Spanish passports. He’s prohibited from leaving Spain. He nonetheless has a residence close to Barcelona.
Alves gained dozens of titles with elite golf equipment together with Barcelona. He helped Brazil win two Copa Americas and an Olympic gold medal. He performed for Barcelona from 2008-16, serving to to win three Champions Leagues, and briefly rejoined the membership in 2022.
The Brazilian soccer confederation is but to touch upon the Alves case, and the pinnacle of its delegation for 2 friendlies in Europe stated Thursday that the subject is being ignored.
Leila Pereira, the chairwoman of Brazilian membership Palmeiras, spoke from London, the place Brazil will face England on Saturday.
“No person says something, however as a girl right here on the head of the delegation I’ve to take a stand on the circumstances of Robinho and Daniel Alves,” she advised Brazil’s information web site UOL forward of the match that can mark the debut of latest Brazil coach Dorival Júnior.
Former Actual Madrid and AC Milan striker Robinho was convicted of rape in Italy, however will serve his nine-year sentence in Brazil after a choice of one of many nation’s highest courts on Wednesday.
“It’s a slap within the face for all of us girls, particularly the case of Daniel Alves, who paid for freedom,” Pereira added. “It is vital for me have my place. Every case of impunity is the seed for the subsequent crime.”
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva additionally criticised the Spanish courtroom’s transfer to grant bail to Alves. He spoke Wednesday throughout a celebration of his Staff’ Celebration.
“It’s in opposition to these injustices that we can’t be silent about. Cash can’t purchase dignity,” Lula stated throughout the occasion in capital metropolis of Brasilia. “The cash that Dani Alves has, the cash that another person might need lent him, it can’t pay for the crime {that a} man commits in opposition to a girl by raping her.”
Weeks earlier than Robinho’s trial at Brazil’s excessive courtroom, Lula stated the previous footballer ought to serve his sentence in Brazil.
Alves and Robinho are a staunch supporters of Lula’s predecessor, former President Jair Bolsonaro.