The Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office decided on Tuesday against the possible release of former soccer player Robson de Souza’Robinho‘, who has been imprisoned since March 22 in a prison in Brazil after Justice approved the 9-year prison sentence he was sentenced to in Italy for a gang rape.
“The statement (of the Prosecutor’s Office) is for the rejection of the request,” said the Attorney General of Brazil, Paulo Gonet, in an opinion sent to the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which is reviewing an appeal in which the defense of the former attacking Clubs such as Real Madrid, Manchester City and Milan are demanding his release.
The lawyers of the soccer player revealed by the Santos club have presented a habeas corpus requesting the release of their client until the Supreme Court makes a definitive decision on whether the sentence handed down by the Italian Justice can be served in Brazil. The defense says that Robinho, 40, still has the right to present some appeals to a higher court, so his conviction cannot be considered final and final.
The Prosecutor, however, alleges that the sentence handed down by the Italian Justice is final; that the former soccer player is considered “definitely guilty of knowledge,” and that in Brazil the merits of his conviction or his guilt are no longer discussed. “The fact that the process was not processed in Brazil does not change that conclusion,” Gonet said in his opinion. The Prosecutor also added, “that there is no constitutional guarantee so that the Brazilian can respond with freedom until the final decision of the approval of the foreign sentence.”
Robinho was arrested on March 21 after the Superior Court of Justice approved the sentence of the Italian Justice and decided that he should serve the sentence imposed on him in Italy in a Brazilian prison.
The attack happened in 2017 in Milan
The former soccer player was convicted in Italy in 2017 for the gang rape of an Albanian boy in a nightclub in Milan in 2013, but he was free because before the end of the trial he returned to Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of countrymen..
The Italian authorities have asked the Brazilian Justice to approve the sentence and, consequently, determine the imprisonment of the former soccer player so that he can serve the sentence in his country of origin. After the decision of the Superior Court of Justice to approve the sentence, Robinho was taken to the prison of Tremembé, within the state of Sao Paulo.
Source: La Verdad
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