President Lula helps Robinho serving rape jail time period in Brazil

A Brazilian court docket will determine on March 20 whether or not former Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid striker Robinho will serve a sentence in Brazil.

He was handed a jail time period in 2017 for his half in a gaggle sexual assault.

Brazil’s president mentioned in an interview Monday he hoped the footballer might be convicted by native authorities.

“Everybody who commits rape should be imprisoned. Individuals have to study that sexual relation is not only concerning the need of 1 get together, it is concerning the settlement of the events. So a person, a younger man who has cash, a wealthy younger man, a well-known younger man, committing a rape, and collectively one, and who thinks he hasn’t dedicated against the law, thinks he was drunk? Disgrace on you,” president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned.

“Rape is an unforgivable crime, so individuals must be condemned. They must be on trial and so they must be convicted. Robinho has already been convicted in Italy, and he was imagined to be serving time right here, now he’ll be on trial this month, and I hope he pays the value for his irresponsibility.”

Robinho and 5 others had been gound responsible of gang-raping a girl after plying her with alcohol.

The conviction was confirmed by an appeals court docket in 2020 and upheld by Italy’s supreme court docket in January 2022.

Robinho acquired a nine-year sentence.

Brazil doesn’t extradite its residents when they’re sentenced in different international locations. The nation’s Superior Courtroom of Justice will determined if Robinho will serve his sentence in Brazil.