Dani Alves allowed to leave Spanish jail after paying €1m bail
by Agence France-Presse in Barcelona from World news | The Guardian on (#6KKEV)
Former Barcelona and Brazil footballer is appealing against conviction and prison sentence for rape
The former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves, convicted of rape in Spain, has paid his bail of 1m and can leave jail pending his appeal, a court has said.
One of the world's most decorated footballers, Alves, 40, was sentenced last month to four and a half years in jail for raping a young woman in the VIP bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub in the early hours of 31 December 2022.
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