The Italian government has asked Brazil to enforce the nine-year prison sentence against former AC Milan footballer Robinho , definitively convicted by the Cassation of the crime of gang sexual violence .

The Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, signed the request on January 24 and sent it to the government in Brasilia through diplomatic channels on the 31st of the same month. The Italian authorities are also asking for the sentence against Ricardo Falco, a friend of the former attacker, to be enforced. The two were convicted in Italy for the rape of a young Albanian girl which took place in Milan on 22 January 2013 in a club in the Lombard capital. Both live in Brazil.

Nordio requested that "the case be submitted to the competent Brazilian judicial authority so that it authorizes , pursuant to Brazilian law, the execution of the nine-year prison sentence imposed on Robson de Souza by the sentence of the Court of Milan of November 23, 2017, passed final on January 19, 2013". Furthermore, the Italian government explains that the Minister of Justice asked Brazil to extradite Robinho and Falco in September 2022, a request rejected last November because article 5 of the Brazilian constitution prohibits the extradition of citizens born in the South American country.

(Unioneonline/F)

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