Neymar case: Police accuse model of false accusation and extortion

In the request sent to the Court a month after refusing to press charges against Neymar for considering that the accusation against him had no grounds, the Civil Police argues that, on the contrary, there are indications that the model made a false accusation and attempted to extort the player's family, therefore, they request that she be prosecuted.

The commissioner in charge of the case, Monique Lima, accused the model of the crimes of calumnious accusation, procedural fraud, and extortion, after concluding two of the investigations opened since Neymar was accused of rape.

One of these investigations was opened at the request of Neymar's father, who claimed to have been the victim of an extortion attempt by one of the model's lawyers, who proposed an economic agreement for Trindade not to make the accusation.

In the same process, the Civil Police accused Trindade's ex-husband, Estiven Alves, of the crimes of procedural fraud and dissemination of material with erotic content.

According to investigators, Alves handed intimate images of his ex-wife to a journalist to be published on the internet.

Trindade's lawyer, Cosme Araújo Santos, stated that he could not comment on the decision of the Civil Police because he had not had access to the process and he was surprised by the accusation against his client shortly after he had requested a confrontation between the parties from the Court.

The rape accusation against Neymar was archived on August 8 by Judge Ana Paula Gomes de Moraes, head of the Second Court of Domestic Violence in Santo Amaro, who followed the recommendation made by both the Civil Police and the Prosecutor's Office.

The Prosecutor's Office argued that the examinations conducted by the Legal Medical Institute did not find signs of violence against the model.

Commissioner Juliana Lopes Bussacos, head of the Sixth Women's Defense Commission in Sao Paulo and responsible for the investigation into the rape, concluded in her final report that there was not sufficient evidence to formally accuse Neymar of the crimes of rape or assault.

The commissioner also stated that she had detected numerous contradictions in Trindade's accusations against the football player.

In her complaint, the 26-year-old model claimed that she traveled to Paris to have consensual sex with the forward on May 15, but that, while in a hotel, she changed her mind at the last moment because the football player did not have condoms, and that she was then raped by the PSG player.

After the alleged assault, the young woman returned to Brazil and, 10 days later, filed a complaint with a police station in Sao Paulo against the forward, who at that time was concentrated with the Brazilian national team that competed in the 2019 Copa America in Brazil.

The complainant handed the police a one-minute video in which she can be seen hitting Neymar, while accusing him of assaulting her and leaving her alone in the hotel the night before.

The model claimed that another six minutes of the same video would contain elements that would prove that the Brazilian star sexually assaulted her, but later claimed that her mobile phone, where she allegedly had them stored, had been stolen.