Dani Alves was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for rape

 There is evidence that, in addition to the testimony of the complainant, enables rape to be considered proven," the court said in a statement. Alves, who has been in pretrial detention for more than a year and will appeal against this decision, according to his lawyer, has also been ordered to pay 150,000 euros to the girl and stay away from her for nine and a half years, plus five years to be released under supervision immediately after his sentence has been served. In its decision, the court highlighted the wounds on the victim's knees, describing them as "the result of the violence caused by Alvès". In addition, the Court has said that the victim's testimony has been "correct" throughout the procedure and that he never wanted to gain "economic interests" from this matter. The verdict of Alves, 40, at the end of this highly publicized trial, which took place in early February, provoked reactions even from Spain's left-wing government, which passed a controversial law on the consent in 2022 of open sex.