The former footballer Robson de Souza ‘Robinho’ He will remain in jail while the Supreme Court judges appeals in which he seeks to avoid serving his sentence for rape, as the high court decided on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court ordered to maintain Robinho in jail in a virtual trial that ended in the early hours of Wednesday that ended with nine votes in favor of maintaining prison and two votes in favor of granting him ‘habeas corpus’.
Robinho40, has been in prison since last March, serving a nine-year sentence for rape imposed by Italian Justice.
The former soccer player’s defense, with its latest appeals to the Supreme Court, is trying to challenge the judicial decision that gave the green light to carry out the sentence in Brazil.
The ex Real Madrid, Milan or Manchester Cityamong others, He was convicted in Italy in 2017 for a gang rape of a woman committed in 2013, in Milan.
Robinho He could not be imprisoned then because, before the sentence was known, he returned to Brazil, where the Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens.
The man from São Paulo was arrested in Santos on March 21 after a Brazilian court approved the sentence and allowed it to be carried out in the country. A day later, he entered the prison of Tremembé, in the state of São Paulo.
Source: La Verdad
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