As was shown on Thursday, there is a lot of anger for Dani Alves at the moment. The former Barcelona and Sevilla defender, who was released on bail on Monday afternoon, is currently awaiting the outcome of his appeal for the rape conviction, which was launched earlier this month.
In Brazil, there are many who strongly hate him because of this episode, and this is especially the case for those in Juazeiro, his hometown. The 40-year-old has a statue here, but in recent months, there have been increasing requests for it to be removed.
Student and activist Manuella Tyler Medrado said in an interview with EFE (via Brand) that the permanence of the statue of Alves calls into question “the value and dignity of women”.
“We have to form a society where the culture of rape is not normalized. This is a great opportunity to make it clear that sexual crimes must be repudiated.”
For now, the statue of Alves remains, although it has been vandalized on several occasions. The local government in Juazeiro is certainly under increasing pressure to remove it.
