Italy has requested Brazil to extradite football star Robinho to serve a nine-yr jail sentence for the gang rape of an Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub.
The previous Manchester Town star, 38, was sentenced in 2019 over the 2013 attack on the 23-yr-old when he performed for AC Milan.
The Brazilian intercontinental, real title Robson De Souza, has appealed versus the conviction but it has been upheld by many Italian courts, such as the Supreme Court of Cassation in January this year.
Now the Italian justice ministry has written a ask for to Brazil to extradite Robinho alongside with his friend Ricardo Falco who was also sentenced in the scenario.
The Brazilian Structure does not allow for their citizens to be extradited from their homeland.
Italy has questioned Brazil to extradite footballing star Robinho (pictured) to provide a nine-12 months jail sentence for the gang rape of an Albanian female in a Milan nightclub
The former Manchester Town star, 38, was sentenced in 2019 around the attack of a 213-year-aged in January 2013 when he performed for AC Milan (pictured in March 2013)
Right after the fees ended up very first introduced, a Brazilian newspaper discovered the contents of wiretapped cellular phone discussions the footballer experienced with close friends, such as 1 in which he makes an attempt to giggle off the accusations.
‘I’m laughing for the reason that I will not treatment,’ Robinho could be heard expressing. ‘The woman was entirely drunk. She would not even know what took place.’
The expenses day back again to 2013, when Robinho was aged 28 and enjoying in Serie A for AC Milan.
On the evening of January 22 the footballer and a team of at least six men and women, which include his spouse, experienced been consuming in the Sio Café nightclub in the town.
It was there that they satisfied the Albanian female, who was celebrating her birthday with some of her close friends.
At some place in the course of the evening Robinho walked his wife again home in advance of rejoining his friends in the club, where by they started consuming with the lady.
The female states Robinho, who was owing to celebrate his personal birthday 3 times later on, and his pals forced her to drink till she was approximately unconscious.
It was then that they took her into a private dressing home exactly where Robinho and Falco sexually assaulted her even though the other 4 guys viewed.
Robinho has consistently denied the costs, boasting the sexual intercourse was consensual and that his only regret is staying unfaithful to wife Vivian (pictured alongside one another)
Robinho and Falco then ‘shared’ the female with the other four males, Italian media described at the time.
The sportsman was arrested and questioned around the allegations in 2014. He admitted possessing oral sexual intercourse with the woman, but claimed it was consensual.
Following questioning, law enforcement wiretapped Robinho’s phones and recorded discussions in which he bragged about the attack with his close friends.
Through the investigation, 4 of Robinho’s close friends who ended up allegedly included in the assault but have in no way been discovered remaining the region for Brazil.
The exact same calendar year Robinho left Italy to return to participate in for his boyhood club Santos, and Falco also remaining the nation.
The pair were being tried in absentia in November 2017 and discovered guilty of rape, with judges handing down a nine-yr sentence.
Speaking during the sentencing hearing, the judges designed it plain that ‘contempt’ for the sufferer proven in wiretapped phone phone calls was an aggravating variable.
‘Particularly detrimental emphasis should be given to the tone and expressions utilized in commenting on the events, describing the girl with humiliating epithets and often in crude and contemptuous conditions,’ they explained.
At the time of the assault the 28-year-previous Robinho was enjoying in Serie A for AC Milan (pictured), but returned to Brazil just before the costs had been introduced to court
‘The defendants even laughed several moments at the function, therefore highlighting an complete contempt for the affliction of the target, who was exposed to repeated humiliations, as very well as functions of sexual violence via specifically invasive abuses.’
The pair have also been ordered to jointly pay out the woman damages of $73,000.
The footballer arrived by the academy at Brazilian club Santos where he was frequently when compared to Pele as a single of the major prospects they had developed.
He played at Real Madrid and Manchester City right before a personal loan stint at Milan concerning 2013 and 2014, and was also capped for his country.
Immediately after the allegations towards him emerged in Italy he went again to Brazil and also spent time participating in in Turkey.
In 2020, he transferred back again to Santos where he was due to see out his vocation enjoying for least wage.
But Santos was forced to scrap the contract amid outcry about the rape situation, with a big sponsor dropping its assistance of the club.
In an job interview soon after the club tore up his contract, Robinho ongoing to deny the rape demand – stating that his only regret about the evening is that he was unfaithful to his wife, Vivian.
Questioned about the tension that had caused Santos to tear up his contract, he replied: ‘Unfortunately there is this feminist movement.’
