Judge Raul Araújo, one of the two who disagreed with the majority, argued Robinho cannot be jailed in Brazil for a conviction in Italy.Judge Isabel Gallotti, one of the few women in the court, disagreed.”This foreign sentence is long, well-founded and well-reasoned,” Gallotti said.Robinho lives in Santos, outside Sao Paulo. He relinquished his passport to Brazilian authorities in March 2023. He continues to deny any wrongdoing and insists his sexual relations with the woman at a Milan bar were consensual.The court also ruled it will be up to authorities in Santos to decide when and how to jail Robinho.Lawyer Jacopo Gnocchi, who represented the victim, said he and his client were satisfied by the Brazil court’s ruling”We believe that this is the fair conclusion of a case that took place in Italy, with assurances for all the defendants who were then found guilty,” Gnocchi told Brazilian news website UOL. “We respected and we understood that the Brazilian Constitution does not allow the extradition (of its own citizens), but that does not change the fact that when the sentence is final it is fair… that the sentence is applied.”The former footballer said in an interview with TV Record aired on Sunday that racism was to blame for his conviction in Italy.”I played only four years in Italy and I got tired of seeing stories of racism. Unfortunately that exists to this day. (The rape case) was in 2013, now we are in 2024. The same people who don’t do anything against it (racism) are the ones who sentenced me,” Robinho said.Federal prosecutor Hindemburgo Chateaubriand reminded the judges during the session of some audio recordings obtained by Italian authorities in which Robinho discussed the case with friends.”I can’t even say all he said because it would be too vulgar for this court,” Chateaubriand said.Brazilian media published some of those recordings last year.”We will punch her in her face. You will punch her in the face and say; ‘What did I do to you?'” Robinho tells a friend in one of the excerpts, during which he claims he did not take part of the rape.
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