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Héctor Ríos Morales

Spanish Court Acquits Former Barcelona Star Dani Alves of Sexual Assault And Overturns His Prison Sentence

Dani Alves (R) leaving the Brians 2 prison in Catalonia on provisional release on March 2024, flanked by his lawyer Ines Guardiola (Credit: Via Getty Images)

Former Barcelona and Brazil soccer star Dani Alves was acquitted by an appeals court in Spain, which overturned the four-and-a-half-year prison sentence he had received in February of last year due to an alleged sexual assault case at a Barcelona night club in December 2022.

The High Court of Justice in Catalonia allowed Alves, 41, an appeal after a panel of judges deemed the initial conviction contained an array of "inaccuracies."

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