Dani Alves’ brother blasts prankster’s fake claims the ex-Barcelona and Brazil star had taken his own life in prison… weeks after being sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail having been found guilty of rape

Dani Alves’ brother has criticized an internet prankster whose false claims that Dani Alves had committed suicide in prison went viral overnight.

The footballer’s press advisor, Acaz Felleger, said they were considering taking legal action against Paulo Albuquerque, based in Rio de Janeiro, for his publication on social networks.

Albuquerque, who describes himself on X, formerly Twitter, as a lover of football, beer and a beautiful woman, wrote last night: “The information I receive is that Daniel Alves has committed suicide.”

Eight hours later, after his initial message to his 12,600 followers went viral on social media, he added in a second post: “People, for the love of God, what kind of impact is this?”

“I was referring to my cousin Danielzinho from the city of Nova Iguacu, who had disappeared, but was now found alive.”

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Alves’ brother Ney, who traveled to Barcelona last month to see the footballer tried for rape ahead of his conviction and four-and-a-half-year prison sentence, said in a furious response on Instagram Live:

How cruel human beings can be!

To show that the Brazil international’s family still believes he is innocent despite three judges finding him guilty of forcing himself on a 23-year-old woman in a bathroom at Barcelona’s exclusive Sutton nightclub in the early hours of December 30, 2022. He added: “He has already been condemned by the word of a woman who entered a men’s bathroom to do what only he and she know how.

‘He has already been convicted. Isn’t that enough?

“Now the crazy thing is that people want him dead. They want to see my brother dead. How cruel is that!

‘My dad is over 70 years old and my mom is over 60.

‘Don’t people like that have families?’

Journalist Felleger, who represents Dani Alves, also denied false claims that Alves had committed suicide and said on a Brazilian radio station that legal action was being considered against the person who sparked the viral rumor.

He said: ‘The information was published in X without any basis. “I spoke with Dani’s lawyer and this irresponsible person should be sued.”

Alves’ model wife, Joana Sanz, has not yet commented.

The 31-year-old beauty from Tenerife, who admitted last year that she was seeking a divorce from the footballer which she subsequently postponed, gave her 950,000 Instagram followers a photo of her training in the gym overnight.

Alves, 40, a father of two, received his prison sentence on February 22 after being brought to Barcelona court, where he stood trial for three days early last month.

He was held in Brians 2 prison, near the Catalan capital, for more than a year in preventive detention before his trial.

Alves, whose lawyer has already confirmed that he will appeal his conviction and sentence for rape, protested his innocence on February 7 after taking the stand on the final day of his three-day trial at Barcelona’s Provincial Court.

He claimed he had consensual sex with his 23-year-old accuser and had not forced her to do anything.

The woman he was found guilty of raping insisted the footballer had forced himself on her after hitting her when she gave evidence in court behind a screen.

State prosecutors confirmed at his trial that they wanted him to be sentenced to nine years in prison, and a lawyer representing his victim demanded a 12-year sentence. They are also prepared to appeal in the hope that high court judges will impose a harsher punishment on Alves.

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