A court in Brazil must decide this Wednesday whether the former soccer player Robinhowho was sentenced to prison in Italy for a gang rape in Milan in 2013, he was supposed to serve his sentence Brazil.
Robinhowho played on AC Milan At the time of the events, he had returned to Brazil when he was sentenced to nine years in prison by the Italian justice system in 2017, a sentence confirmed by the Court of Cassation in January 2022.
The Brazilian Constitution does not allow the extradition of its citizens, so Italy He requested in February 2023 that he serve his sentence in his home country, which has been possible since a Brazilian law took effect in 2017.
If the justices of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) accept this request, it will be the first time that a judgment handed down in another country can be delivered to Brazilthe criminal lawyer told AFP Leonardo Pantaleo, who described it as an “unpublished case.”
The decision could be made on Wednesday, but it is also possible that one of the judges will ask for more time to study the case. The STJ is not obliged to decide on the merits of the matter, but only to examine whether the Italian court’s request is admissible from a legal point of view.
When will he go to jail?
Even if this request is accepted, Robinho40, should not be imprisoned immediately, because there are other appeals, especially to the Supreme Court of Brazil, he explained. pantaleo
The former Brazilian international, capped 100 times for his country, was found guilty in Italy of the gang rape of a young Albanian girl who was celebrating her 23rd birthday at a nightclub in Milan.
According to the indictment, Robinho and five other Brazilians made their victim drink “until she passed out and could not defend herself” and then had “sexual intercourse with her several times in a row.”
The former attacker has always maintained his innocence, as he did again Sunday, attributing his conviction to “racism.”
“It was consensual. I never deny it (having had relations with the victim). I could have denied it because my DNA was not found, but I am not a liar,” he said in an interview with the Brazilian channel. TV Record.
“I played for four years in Italy and saw many stories of racism (…). Those who criticize me are the same who do nothing against racism,” he said.
Last week, the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is in favor of Robinho serving his sentence in his country, to “pay the price for his irresponsibility.”
The former soccer player was “luckier than 99% of Brazilian kids, he made a lot of money and became very famous. He didn’t have to do that,” he added. Lulafor whom rape is an “unforgivable” crime.
Trained on saintsthe club of “King Pelé”, Robson de Souza, known as Robinhoplayed for big European clubs like Real Madrid, he City of Manchester and AC Milan, but his career never reached the heights it seemed promised.
In 2020, he attempted a final return to Santos, but his contract was terminated under pressure from fans and sponsors due to his rape conviction, which definitively ended his career.
Another Brazilian international, the former full-back Barcelona and ofl Paris SG Daniel Alves, He was sentenced last month to more than four years in prison for rape in Spain.
The case received enormous coverage around the world, but did not elicit the slightest reaction from Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF)the clubs or the former teammates who played with him in the Seleçao.
Source: La Verdad
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