Robinho cannot leave Brazil due to Italy’s international arrest warrant to serve his sentence for rape

The prosecutor’s office in Milan, northern Italy, issued an international arrest warrant and requested the extradition of Brazilian soccer player Robson de Souza, Robinho, sentenced to nine years in prison for gang rape of a young woman in Milan in 2013, sources reported Tuesday. of local press.

The international arrest warrant is a problem for the player who will not be able to travel abroad to countries with which Italy has extradition agreements, the same source explained.

It is not excluded that the authorities of both countries reach an agreement to serve the sentence in Brazilian territory, since the Brazilian Constitution does not allow the extradition of its citizens.

“For us, nothing changes if he serves his sentence in Italy or Brazil. The whole is that he complies with it, especially for the crime committed, to protect women,” the victim’s lawyer, Jacopo Gnocchi, told AFP.

The Court of Cassation, the last judicial instance in Italy, confirmed on January 19 the conviction for group sexual violence against a young Albanian woman who was celebrating her 23rd birthday in a well-known local in Milan.

Robinho, who was then playing for the AC Milan club, along with five other compatriots, made the young woman drink “to the point of rendering her unconscious and unable to resist” and then committed “sexual relations several times in a row” with her.

The 37-year-old Brazilian attacker, along with his friend Ricardo Falco, was convicted in 2017 in the first instance by the Milan court and in December 2020 by the Milan Court of Appeals, which confirmed the conviction for the player and considered that The soccer player acted with “special contempt for the victim, who was brutally humiliated,” reads the sentence in the case. (D)