The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared in an interview released on Monday that he supports the former Real Madrid soccer player Robinho, convicted in Italy for participating in a gang rape, is serving his sentence in the South American country.
The president considered in an interview with the SBT television network that the crime for which the 40-year-old athlete was convicted, This is “inexcusable” and he should be serving time.
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“Every person who commits the crime of rape should be imprisoned (…). A man with money, rich and famous, commits gang rape, and believes that he did not commit a crime, believes that he is drunk. This is shameful, ” he said to Lula.
Robinho He was sentenced in Italy to nine years in prison for raping a young Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub in 2013 and the sentence was confirmed in 2022 by the European country’s Supreme Court, after which an international prison order was issued.
However, the order was not carried out because the former soccer player was included Brazil, whose Constitution prohibits the extradition of the country’s citizens.
Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice is due to decide on March 20 if the Italian verdict is approved and Robinho is finally jailed in Brazil.
Source: La Verdad
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