Blast against ex-Real Madrid player Robinho: Brazil’s Supreme Court votes against his release

He Supreme Court of Brazil reached a majority this Friday against the release of the former soccer player Robson de Souza ‘Robinho’, who has been in prison since last March with a nine-year sentence for rape.

The request of ‘habeas corpus’ He is being tried in a telematic hearing, where so far six judges have voted in favor of keeping Robinho in prison and one has voted for his release.

The vote of the four justices, who have until the 26th to issue a statement, is pending, but the result of the vote, which was decided by a simple majority, cannot be changed.

The defense of Robinho He requested his release, saying that the prison order ordered by the Brazilian court violated constitutional standards, as the latest appeals presented by the former player before the high court have not yet been judged. However, most of the magistrates of Supreme He rejected that interpretation.

The last of them, the judge Alexandre de Moraes, He said in his vote, released this Friday, that the sentence is strong and stressed that it is not up to the Brazilian justice system to re-judge the facts or review the Italian court’s decision, where Robinho’s “criminal liability” for rape was definitively established.

The former player of clubs like Real Madrid, Milan and Manchester City He was convicted in Italy in 2017 for a gang rape of a woman committed in 2013 in Milan.

Robinho He could not be jailed then because, before the nine-year prison sentence was announced, he returned to Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens.

The former striker was arrested in saints on March 21 after a Brazilian court approved the sentence and a day later He entered the prison of Tremembéin the state of São Paulo. After the rejection of ‘habeas corpus’, Robinho will continue his defense while the Supreme examining the appeals presented by his defense.