Alves's accuser will also appeal the acquittal for sexual assault.

BarcelonaThe complainant of footballer Dani Alves will also appeal, like the Prosecutor's Office, against the sentence handed down a week ago. overturned the four and a half year prison sentence for sexually assaulting her. According to ARA, the young woman's lawyer, Ester García, is preparing the brief to present it to the Supreme Court on Monday.

Last Friday, when the sentence was made public, García said that the young woman had yet to decide whether to file a new appeal, because it would mean prolonging the judicial procedure and the suffering it entails. A week later, the young woman decided to "go all the way" and appeal the sentence.

Precisely this Friday, Alves collected his passport, which was being held at the Barcelona Court, where he went every Friday to certify that he had not fled Spain. Acquitted, the footballer will no longer have to continue complying with these precautionary measures, which were imposed as a condition for his release from pretrial detention.

For his part, The Prosecutor's Office formally announced on Wednesday that it would appeal. to the Supreme Court to review the ruling of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that overturned the sentence imposed by the Barcelona Court for sexual assault at the Sutton nightclub.

The arguments, below

In this appeal announcement process, both the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution merely announce their intention to appeal and point out the grounds on which they will base their appeal, without elaborating on their arguments. They will do so in a new brief if the Supreme Court admits the appeals.

The reasons advanced by the Prosecutor's Office, without specifying them, are based on the only legal loopholes that allow it to appeal the sentence, arguing that the TSJC's decision overturning Alves's conviction violates constitutional precepts and principles of the Criminal Code.

These new appeals to try to revive the sentence that condemned the footballer are not the first filed by both prosecutions in this case. At the time, the sentence from the Barcelona Court of Appeals was minimal in the eyes of the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution, who appealed to the TSJC asking for the sentence to be increased to nine and twelve years in prison, respectively. The TSJC, however, overturned the conviction, upholding the appeal by Alves's lawyer, Inés Guardiola, who had sought his acquittal.