Brazilian international footballer Dani Alves was arrested Friday and faces trial in Barcelona after he testified about the alleged sexual assault of a woman at the Sutton nightclub on December 30.

Alves went to the police station early Friday morning and was arrested minutes after 10:00 local time (11:00 Greek time).

According to Europa Press sources, the police took the world champion (in two Confederations Cups) with Brazil to the Ciutat de la Justicia in Barcelona, ​​where he will stand trial and the judge will decide on his interim status. the case is under investigation.

Two days after the alleged rape, the woman informed the football player about the incident. The woman’s complaint is under investigation, according to the High Court of Catalonia.

Alves, who has lived in Mexico City since July last year, denies everything. “I would like to deny everything, first of all. I was there, in that place, with a lot of people, having fun. Everyone knows that I love to dance. I had fun, but without invading someone else’s space. When you decide to go to the toilet, you don’t ask who’s there,” the former Barcelona player recently defended in a video he sent to Spanish network Antena 3.

He added, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know who this lady is, I don’t know who she is, I’ve never seen her in my life. In all these years, I have never invaded someone’s space, all the more arbitrarily, as I would do it with a woman or a girl, by God, no. Enough of all this, because they hurt, especially my people, my own, because they know who I am.

Source: El Pais, Reuters.