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Former Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid striker Robinho should serve a nine-year rape sentence — imposed on him by an Italian courtroom — in Brazil, judges in Brasilia dominated Wednesday.
The courtroom dominated by 9 votes to 2 in favor of an Italian request that Robinho serve his sentence in his residence nation after he was discovered responsible of participating within the gang rape of an Albanian lady out celebrating her twenty third birthday at a Milan nightclub in 2013.
Legal professionals mentioned Robinho, who was not current at Wednesday’s listening to, would stay free pending a potential enchantment in opposition to the ruling.
Robson de Souza, popularly often known as “Robinho,” was convicted by an Italian courtroom in 2017.
The previous Brazil worldwide, now 40, was enjoying for AC Milan on the time of the crime.
His sentence was upheld by Italy’s highest courtroom in 2022, after which Italian prosecutors issued a world arrest warrant for him.
He had additionally misplaced within the Milan Court docket of Enchantment in 2020.
Brazil doesn’t extradite its nationals, nonetheless, and Italy requested that Robinho be made to serve his sentence in his residence nation as a substitute.
The footballer, who protests his innocence, informed Brazilian community TV Report in an interview broadcast Sunday the intercourse had been “consensual.”
“I by no means denied it (the encounter). I might have denied it as a result of my DNA was not there, however I am not a liar.”
He additionally accused the Italian justice system of “racism.”
