Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves, under investigation on a sexual assault charge, was remanded to jail on Friday by a Spanish judge, the Catalonia Higher Court of Justice press office said in a statement
“Investigating magistrate number 15 of Barcelona has received today, as a detainee, the football player Dani Alves, accused by a woman for an alleged sexual assault, in events that allegedly happened in a Barcelona discotheque this past month of December,” the statement said. “The magistrate has ruled provisional jail without bail, for the ongoing case for a crime of sexual assault,” the statement said. But the judge allowed that Alves could have communications while in jail, it added.
Alves, 39, was detained earlier Friday by the Catalan regional police, the police press office told CNN. He spoke to officers at a police station in Barcelona and then was driven in a police car to the courthouse across town, the police press office said. He remained in police custody, and hours later, he was arraigned before the magistrate.
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