Dani Alves earns money in prison with autographs
According to ElCaso.com, orders for Alves football shirts have quadrupled since the 39-year-old was detained. The sale of shirts for Barca, Juventus, PSG and Brazil - the teams that Alves played for - has also increased dramatically.
This vibrant business spread to Brians 2 prison - where Alves is being held. According to Spanish newspaper Marca, an inmate was assigned to move around the prison and collect all the Alves jerseys sent by the inmate's family via courier.
This prisoner handed the shirt to the Brazilian defender for him to sign. Once completed, the shirts will be returned to each ward and other inmates will return them to their family or friends.
Inmates also charge a commission for each jersey, through packs of cigarettes or various products available in the prison shop.
According to Marca, Alves will continue this routine while waiting for the date of the trial to be announced. At the end of February, the Brazilian defender was denied bail by the Spanish Court and will have to spend time in jail until trial. Marca predicts it could take up to a year and a half to determine a trial date for the case.
Earlier, Spanish media reported that Alves was "completely depressed and very worried", even asking for solitary confinement, going on a hunger strike, sometimes fasting all day, after his wife Joana Sanz publicly announced that she had cut ties. generation.
Alves' mother, Dona Lucia and ex-wife Dana Dinorah have repeatedly shown support and affirmed the Brazilian defender's innocence.
On the morning of January 20, Alves was arrested by police at the Mossos d'Esquadra de Les Corts station, Barcelona city, Spain and taken to the Ciutat de la Justicia court. Since then, he has been held at Brians Prison 1 without bail. After three nights, Alves was transferred to Brians 2 - where most of the prisoners were accused of sexual assault.
According to the victim's testimony, Alves forced her to sit on her body, slapped her, pushed her to the floor and forced her to have sex - something she actively resisted - in the toilet of the VIP section of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in the evening. 12/30.
