Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ) will resolve on Wednesday whether or not to implement former Manchester City and Real Madrid striker Robinho’s nine-year rape sentence issued by an Italian court docket in Brazil.
The sentence was initially imposed in 2017 and later confirmed in 2022.
“I hope that here in Brazil I can have the voice that I didn’t have there,” Robinho, who has protested his innocence, mentioned in an interview with Brazilian community TV Record on Sunday.
Robson de Souza, popularly often called “Robinho,” stays free regardless of his conviction for being amongst a gaggle of six males who gang-raped a younger Albanian girl celebrating her twenty third birthday at a Milan nightclub in 2013.
Former Brazil worldwide Robinho was enjoying for AC Milan on the time.
His sentence was upheld by Italy’s highest court docket, after which Italian prosecutors issued a world arrest warrant.
Brazil doesn’t extradite its nationals; nonetheless, Italy requested that Robinho serve his sentence in his dwelling nation as an alternative.
On Sunday, Robinho accused the Italian justice system of “racism.”
“It was consensual,” Robinho informed TV Record.
“I by no means denied it (the encounter). I might have denied it as a result of my DNA was not there, however I’m not a liar.
“I played for four years in Italy and I got tired of seeing stories about racism. The same people who do nothing about racism, which I repudiate, are the ones who condemned me.”
If the ruling goes in opposition to him, the 40-year-old might nonetheless stay free whereas awaiting an enchantment to Brazil’s Supreme Court.
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has mentioned that he hopes Robinho can “serve” the sentence on Brazilian soil.
Unprecedented case
According to Brazilian media, magistrates are anticipated to approve Italy’s request.
“Approval is not common because the law that allows it is relatively recent. It would be an unprecedented case in Brazil,” lawyer Leonardo Pantaleao informed Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Meanwhile, Robinho’s case and that of former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain defender Dani Alves have sparked criticism over the failure of soccer authorities in Brazil to sentence violence in opposition to ladies.
In February, former Brazil worldwide full-back Alves, 40, was sentenced to 4 and a half years in jail for raping a girl in a nightclub in Barcelona.
The case was met with silence from the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the participant’s former golf equipment, and former teammates.
Former Brazil coach Tite mentioned he couldn’t “make a judgment without having all the facts and truthful information” concerning the case.
For Robinho, it has been a dramatic fall from grace.
Having begun his profession at Santos, a staff made well-known by Brazil’s nice Pele, Robinho was touted because the successor to the golden technology of Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho.
In 2005, Robinho left Santos to affix Zinedine Zidane, worldwide teammate Ronaldo and David Beckham at Real Madrid.
However, though he performed for giant groups in Europe and gained two Confederations Cups – in 2005 and 2009 – and a Copa America in 2007, Robinho solely displayed his expertise intermittently.
In 2009, he was briefly detained in England for an alleged sexual assault on a younger girl, however the prices had been dropped after an investigation.
He returned to Santos in 2020, however the membership suspended the deal after stress from followers, sponsors and the media, resulting in the abrupt finish of his profession.
Source: www.dailysabah.com