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Rapist, ex-Brazil star footballer Dani Alves, to be out on €1 mil bail

A Barcelona court today granted 40-year-old Dani Alves a provisional release in exchange for bail but demanded he surrender his Spanish and Brazilian passports, remain in Spain and present himself to court weekly.

Former Brazil football star Dani Alves sentenced to four and a half years jail for rape

ormer Brazil and Barcelona rightback Dani Alves is sentenced to four and a half years in prison for raping a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.

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