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Football: Robinho appeals to the Brazilian Supreme Court to avoid prison

Ex-footballer Robinho has appealed to Brazil's Supreme Court to avoid incarceration after a court ordered him to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape in Italy, one of his lawyers said.

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Football: Robinho appeals to the Brazilian Supreme Court to avoid prison

Ex-footballer Robinho has appealed to Brazil's Supreme Court to avoid incarceration after a court ordered him to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape in Italy, one of his lawyers said. Thursday to AFP.

Wednesday evening, in Brasilia, the magistrates of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) decided by a large majority of nine votes out of eleven that the former Brazilian international could be imprisoned in Brazil, a decision "with immediate effect". His lawyers presented a request to the Supreme Court for “habeas corpus” so that he remains at liberty until all possible remedies are exhausted. The approval or rejection of this request should be decided this Thursday by one of the judges of the Supreme Court, Luiz Fux, AFP learned from the high court. Robinho, 40, was sentenced to nine years in prison by an Italian court in 2017 for gang rape committed in 2013, when he was an AC Milan player. He had already returned to Brazil at the time of the trial. The sentence was upheld by the Italian Court of Cassation in January 2022.

As the Brazilian Constitution does not allow the extradition of its nationals, Italian justice demanded that Robinho serve his sentence in his native country, a request accepted on Wednesday by the STJ. The former striker with a hundred caps has always proclaimed his innocence, claiming to have had a “consensual” relationship with the victim, a young Albanian woman of 23, in a Milanese nightclub. Faced with the possibility that he was there and that the police would come to arrest him, journalists were present from the early hours of the day Thursday near Robinho's second home, located in a luxury housing estate in Guaruja (south-east), noted AFP.

The fallen star lives in the neighboring town of Santos, a port city near Sao Paulo, and is used to coming "once or twice a month", a security guard and a real estate agent told AFP. Other footballers have homes in this residential complex, such as Neymar and Marquinhos, who currently plays for PSG, added the same people, who did not wish to be identified. After the STJ's decision, the committal warrant must be issued by a federal judge in Santos, criminal lawyer Leonardo Pantaleão explained to AFP.

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