Former Barcelona defender Dani Alves has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman at a nightclub after he allegedly groped her under her clothes without her consent.
Brazil’s World Cup star was taken into custody on Friday morning and will be held pending a court hearing later, a police spokesman told Reuters.
Alves is accused of touching a woman under her underwear at a Barcelona nightclub on December 30.
She reported the incident to the staff, who informed the police. He took a statement from the woman.
He then filed a formal complaint on January 2.
Alves denied inappropriate behavior in an interview with Spanish TV channel Antena 3 earlier this month.
A photo of a police car transporting Dani Alves to Barcelona police station on Friday morning. Photo: AP
He said: “I was dancing and having a good time without invading anyone’s space.
“I don’t know who this woman is…how could I do this to a woman? No?”
The 39-year-old footballer is Brazil’s second most capped player with 126 appearances for his country.
Alves spent almost a decade at Barcelona from 2008 to 2016 before moving to Juventus.
In the last five years he has played for the Turin club, Paris Saint-Germain and Sao Paulo before returning to Barcelona in 2021.
He moved to Punas UNAM from the Mexican side in July.
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