Former footballer Robson de Souza’Robinho‘He entered a Brazilian prison in the early hours of this Friday where he will serve a nine-year prison sentence imposed by Italian Justice for participating in a gang rape. The former Real Madrid player arrived at Tremembé prison, located about 150 kilometers from the city of São Paulo, after midnight and after undergoing protocol medical examinations.
Tremembé, which holds about 400 prisoners, is known in Brazil as the “celebrity prison” for being the place where the Brazilian Justice sends famous convicts. Robinho was arrested Thursday at his home near the port city of Santos, where the soccer team he coached as a player, after Supreme Court Justice Luis Fux denied a habeas corpus request.
The former soccer player was convicted in Italy in 2017 for the gang-rape of an Albanian boy in a Milan nightclub in 2013, but has lived freely until now in Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens.
However, this Wednesday the Superior Court of Justice, the highest court for non-constitutional matters, decided by a large majority that Robinho should serve his sentence in Brazil and ordered his immediate and closed prison.
The Court held that it was not bound to review the sentence already pronounced by the Italian court or to open a new trial, but only to check whether all the requirements had been met to accept Italy’s request for the athlete to serve his sentence in Brazil . Robinho’s lawyers argued that he should be retried in the South American country because the sentence in Italy could not be applied, an argument rejected by the magistrates.
Source: La Verdad
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