Alves transferred from prison for security reasons
Dani Alves is to be transferred from Brians 1 prison to Brians 2 prison in Catalonia, following the alleged sexual assault, for security reasons at the penitentiary.
Former Barca player Dani Alves has been transferred to the Brians 2 prison, which has less crowded and safer spaces, and in the next few hours the prison staff will assign him a cell.
According to penitentiary sources, the Brazilian footballer has been in the Brians 1 prison in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona) since last Friday, when a Barcelona judge ordered him to be remanded in prison without bail, accused of raping a young woman in a bathroom of the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the night of 30th December.
The Secretariat of Penal Measures of the Department of Justice of the Generalitat has decided to transfer him to Brians 2, where both convicted and remand prisoners live together, because this facility has smaller residential modules that better guarantee his safety and coexistence with the rest of the inmates.
In fact, the Brians 2 modules house an average of 80 prsioners, while the Brians 1 modules usually house around 200.
Once he has been transferred, the footballer has been placed back in the inmate module, where he will be visited by the centre's professionals who must decide which cell to assign him, a matter for which the type of offence committed is not taken into account.