Catalonia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said that former Barcelona and Brazil defender, Dani Alves, is under investigation over an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in a nightclub in Spain in December 2022.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that Alves has denied any wrongdoing.
According to the report, the court in Barcelona in a statement said it had opened proceedings “for an alleged crime of sexual assault as a result of the complaint filed by a woman for events that allegedly occurred in a nightclub in Barcelona last month”.
Though the court reportedly did not specifically name Alves in the statement, its spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Alves was the subject of the complaint, adding that the case was under investigation but the court had no more information.
Spanish media earlier reported that a woman accused Alves of touching her beneath her underwear without her consent when she was with friends at a nightclub in late December 2022.
But a spokesperson for Alves told Reuters that the player “vehemently denies” all allegations, while he (Alves) is currently in Mexico playing for Pumas UNAM.
It was also reported that Alves told Antena 3 in an interview last week that he was at the club with other people but he denied any such behaviour.
“I was dancing and having a good time without invading anyone’s space,” he said. “I don’t know who this lady is…How could I do that to a woman? No.”
