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In transcripts of telephone interceptions carried out with judicial authorization, the player Robinho revealed his participation in the act that led a 23-year-old Albanian woman to accuse the athlete and friends of gang rape in Milan, Italy. Based mainly on these recordings, the Brazilian was sentenced in the first instance to nine years in prison for the crime. The details of the lawsuit were revealed on Friday (16) by the website “Globoesporte.com”.
According to the investigation, the woman was taken to a dressing room at the nightclub, where she was abused by five men, including Robinho and Ricardo Falco, her friend. The other suspects left Italy in the course of the investigation, so their participation in the event is the subject of another lawsuit.
According to the website, Robinho admitted in court that he had had sex with the victim, but said it was consensual. However, in a conversation with his friend Ricardo Falco, also convicted of the crime, the player showed that he knew that the woman was quite drunk at the time of the act.
In the transcript published by “Globoesporte.com”, the names of other suspects are kept confidential.
Falco: Remember the situation. She knows that everyone had sex with her.
Robinho: O (NAME OF FRIEND 1) I’m sure you got into it.
Falco: I don’t think so. That day she couldn’t do anything, not even stand, she was really crazy.
Robinho: Yes.
The case occurred in a Milan nightclub called Sio Café, on January 22, 2013. In addition to making phone recordings, the Italian police installed a bug in Robinho’s car and managed to capture other conversations.
The player and his friend Falco were convicted in 2017 based on article “609 bis” of the Italian penal code, which describes the violent and non-consensual sexual act imposed by two or more people. Those convicted have appealed and the case will be heard by the Milan appeals court in December.
For the Italian justice, these conversations are “self-incriminating”. In one of them, upon being informed about the investigations by the musician Jairo Chagas, who played that night, Robinho said, according to the process:
Robinho: I laugh because I don’t care, the woman was completely drunk, she doesn’t even know what happened.
Robinho: Look, the boys are into shit … Thank God I did, because I didn’t even touch that girl. I saw (NAME OF FRIEND 2), and the others fucked her, they are going to have problems, not me … I remember the guys who caught her were (NAME OF FRIEND 1) and (NAME OF FRIEND 2) .. .. There were five over.
Musician Jairo Chagas, known to the Brazilian community in Milan, mentioned the episode again in a conversation with Robinho in January 2014.
Robinho: The police can’t say anything, I’ll say I was with you and then I went home.
Jairo: But did you also have sex with the woman?
Robinho: No, I tried. (NAME OF FRIEND 1), (NAME OF FRIEND 2), (NAME OF FRIEND 3) …
Jairo: I saw you when I put my penis in his mouth.
Robinho: This does not mean having sex.
In another conversation with a friend, the Brazilian forward assures that his teammates that night “took it hard.”
The details of the process that led to Robinho’s conviction came to light three years later, as last week the player was announced as a reinforcement of Santos, the club that revealed it.
The hiring sparked a riot among fans and social media users, with many users criticizing the hiring of a person convicted of rape. Santos even lost one of his sponsors. Orlando Rollo, president of the club, however, defended the player and stated that he should not be sanctioned before the final judgment of his case.
