- Dani Alves was sentenced last month to four years and six months in prison
- His family has received a false claim that the former Brazilian star had died in prison
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Dani Alves’ brother has shot an internet prankster whose false claims that Dani Alves committed suicide in prison went viral overnight.
The footballer’s press advisor, Acaz Felleger, said they are considering legal action against Rio de Janeiro-based Paulo Albuquerque over his social media post.
Albuquerque, who describes himself on
He added in a second post eight hours later, after his first message to his 12,600 followers went viral on social media: “Folks, for God’s sake, what kind of repercussion is this?
“I was referring to my cousin Danielzinho from the town of Nova Iguacu who had disappeared but has now been found alive.”
Former Barcelona defender Dani Alves was sentenced last month to four years and six months in prison after being found guilty of rape
Alves’ brother has denied false claims that the former Brazil international died in prison
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Alves’ brother Ney, who traveled to Barcelona last month to watch the footballer be tried for rape prior to his conviction and four-and-a-half year prison sentence, said in an angry Instagram Live response:
‘How cruel people can be!’
He showed that the Brazil international’s family still believe he is innocent, despite three judges finding him guilty of forcing himself on a 23-year-old woman in a toilet at Barcelona’s swanky Sutton nightclub in the early hours of the morning. hours of December 30, 2022. He added: ‘He has already been convicted on the word of a woman who entered a men’s room to do what only he and she know.
‘He has already been convicted. Is that not enough?
‘The madness is that people want him dead. They want to see my brother dead. How cruel is that!
‘My father is over 70 years old and my mother is over 60.
“Don’t such people have relatives?”
Journalist Felleger, who represents Dani Alves, also denied the false claims that Alves committed suicide and said on a Brazilian radio station that legal action is being considered against the person who started the viral rumor.
He said: ‘The information was posted on X without any basis. I have spoken to Dani’s lawyer and this irresponsible person must be charged.’
Alves’ model wife Joana Sanz has not yet commented.
The 31-year-old Tenerife-born beauty, who last year admitted she wanted to divorce the footballer but subsequently put it on hold, treated her 950,000 Instagram followers overnight to a photo of her training in the gym.
Father-of-two Alves, 40, was jailed on February 22 after being brought to court in Barcelona, where he was tried over three days early last month.
He was held in pre-trial detention in the Brians 2 prison near the Catalan capital for over a year before his trial.
Alves, whose lawyer has already confirmed she will appeal his rape conviction, protested his innocence on February 7 after taking the stand on the final day of his three-day trial at Audiencia provincial court in Barcelona.
He claimed he had consensual sex with his 23-year-old female accuser and didn’t make her do anything.
The woman he was found guilty of raping insisted the footballer forced himself on her after hitting her as she gave evidence in court behind a screen.
Prosecutors confirmed at his trial that they wanted to jail him for nine years and a lawyer acting for his victim demanded a 12-year prison sentence. They are also appealing in the hope that superior court judges will give Alves a harsher sentence.
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