Dani Alves will be released on bail of €1 million. The player failed to raise this amount on Wednesday, which is why he has not yet been released from jail, but could be released on Thursday.
President Lula da Silva harshly criticised the Barcelona court's decision. "The money that Alves has, the money that someone can lend him, cannot buy the offence that a man does to a woman by committing rape," he said at the Workers' Party's 44th anniversary celebration.
"When sex is something that is done between two, it has to be allowed and consented to by two. This, in fact, is a crime," Lula da Silva continued.
The president was indignant and stressed that there are "injustices" about which society cannot "remain silent". "We are now seeing that Alves can be released if he pays. I learned in Pernambuco when I was a child that people used to say: 'Here in the Northeast, they don't arrest the one who has 20 million reais (about 3 million euros)'. People see how that trend continues," he lamented.
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