Dani Alves (right) walked out of a jail in Barcelona on Monday afternoon (AFP via Getty)
Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves was released from prison on Monday after posting a €1 million (£857,000) bail.
In February, Alves was sentenced to jail for four-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of raping a woman in a nightclub on December 31, 2022.
The 40-year-old has spent a total of 14 months in prison and has served about a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence.
Alves walked out of prison in Barcelona on Monday afternoon alongside his lawyer Ines Guardiola.
Alves has been ordered to relinquish both his Brazilian and Spanish passports meaning he is unable to leave Spain.
Under the conditions of his bail agreement, the court has also imposed a restraining order barring Alves from coming within 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) of the victim.
Dani Alves left a prison in Barcelona alongside his his lawyer Ines Guardiola (Reuters)
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Speaking last week, Ester Garcia, the lawyer of Alves’ victim, said she is ‘surprised and outraged’ and planned to appeal the decision.
‘It is a scandal that they let him go free,’ she said.
‘It seems that justice is being done for the rich.
‘They said that he has a small financial capacity right now, but I have no doubt that he will get the million from wherever he is.’
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Alves’ ex-wife, Dinorah Santana, with whom he shares two children, has also spoken out against the decision to release the former footballer.
‘There are times when you will have to share the table with Judas, without that taking away your peace. Well, me today,’ she wrote on Instagram.
Santana later said she felt she had been ‘used’ and told Spanish television, ‘for me, he doesn’t exist. For me, he has died.’
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