On Wednesday, judges ruled in Brazil that Robinho, the former Real Madrid striker, will have to serve a nine-year prison sentence in Brazil while upholding his rape conviction. The trial took place in Brazil’s Court Superior of Justice, the country’s top court for non-constitutional cases, and the former player ruled by a majority in Brazil that he would serve his sentence.
In 2017, a Milan court found Robinho and five other Brazilians guilty of gang-raping a woman after drugging her at a discotheque in 2013. The court confirmed the conviction following an appeal in 2020, which was further validated by the Supreme Court of Italy in 2022.
Brazil does not extradite its citizens. Italy requested Brazil last year that Robinho serve his prison sentence in his home country.
He will surrender to the authorities, Robinho’s lawyer revealed after being officially informed of the decision. The rape conviction was not examined by the Brazilian court, focusing only on whether the Italian conviction was valid in Brazil.
Speaking to TV Record recently, Robinho said, “It was consensual. I have never denied it (the encounter). I could have denied it because my DNA was not there, I am not a liar but. “I played in Italy for four years and I’m tired of seeing stories about racism. The same people who do nothing about racism are the same people who condemned me, which I refute.”
A Spanish Court ruled On Wednesday
The case of Barcelona star Dani Alves and former PSG star Robinho has drawn considerable criticism over the failure of authorities to deal with violence against women. In February, former Barcelona full-back Alves, 40, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for raping a woman in a nightclub.
The victim will be released from jail pending an appeal in a bail deal of one million euros pending an appeal, a Spanish court ruled on Wednesday, denounced as ‘justice’ by his lawyer.
From 2007 to 2010 for Manchester, he played City and for Milan for four years until 2014. In 2009 in England, he was briefly detained on a young woman charges of sexual assault, following an investigation but the charges were dropped.
He sought to return to Santos in 2020, but the club suspended the deal following pressure from fans and sponsors, abruptly ending his career.
Around the same time, TV channel Globo Sports released excerpts from the recording used by Italian prosecutors to secure his conviction in which Robinho reportedly said: I don’t care because I’m laughing. Drunk Woman, It was complete. He didn’t even know what happened.”
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