Neymar could be cleared of the rape accusation levied against him within days, MailOnline can reveal.
His accuser Brazilian model Najila Trindade has been told by her lawyer that she faces seeing her case against the £200 million footballer collapse unless she provides more evidence.
She also faces losing the second lawyer to represent her after he said he could not carry on if his professional ‘trust’ in her was compromised.
Her attorney Danileo Garcia de Andrade said he still believed Ms Trindade had a case, but he would step aside if there was a lack of evidence.
Brazilian soccer player Neymar leaves the police station after testifying in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 6. He could be cleared of the rape accusation within days after his model accuser was told she needed more evidence
A video emerged, filmed by Ms Trindade (left) during her second meeting with Neymar, that showed her hitting him (right) as he lay on the hotel bed in what she said was an attempt to get him to repeat the aggression of the first encounter
He said he had given her a deadline to produce the video and photographs she claimed to have had which would help prove her allegations of rape against the Brazilian superstar who was bought for £200 million by Paris St Germain.
If the evidence was not forthcoming, he said, he would drop the case next week.
Ms Trindade, who says she was attacked by Neymar, 26, in a Paris hotel room last month, told police her tablet containing a seven-minute video, messages and photos she alleged incriminated the footballer, was stolen in a burglary at her apartment.
But police said they found no major signs of a break in and only Ms Trindade’s fingerprints and those of her maid and friends around the flat.
Mr de Andrade told Brazil’s UOL Esporte: ‘If the police investigation of the supposed break in where she lives shows there was no break-in, I am leaving the case.’
He added: ‘The attorney-client relationship is based always on trust. If there is no trust, then there is no reason to stay on’
Brazilian soccer player Neymar leaves the police station after testifying in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 6. His accuser has claimed that the seven-minute video of the rape was stolen from her apartment although police said, upon inspection, that they found no evidence of a break-in
Neymar has strongly denied the rape allegation and said he has been ‘set up,’
He is still set to be interviewed by police in Sao Paulo when he flies in from Rio de Janeiro early this week.
Although he is injured the Brazil team will be in Sao Paulo where Ms Trindade lives for a Copa America match against Bolivia.
Sources said police will have to drop their investigation without evidence, but would be weary of being seen allowing a multi-millionaire super star footballer, the most famous sportsman in the country, to walk free without being interviewed.
‘There is still a woman here who has been crying, unwell and saying she has been raped. It has to be thoroughly investigated if the police have something to go on.’
Neymar has been interviewed in Rio about publishing private messages between him and Ms Trindade, but that probe is also likely to be dropped now more messages between them have been leaked by her side and published on the internet.
Meanwhile, MailOnline has received a copy of the full police statement given by Ms Trindade, 26, during her first interview.
Najila Trindade de Souza, who accuses Brazilian soccer player Neymar of rape, is carried by her lawyer Danilo Garcia de Andrade after giving testimony in a police station in Sao Paulo, Brazil
In it the model reveals an assistant to the £200 million soccer star called ‘Gallo’ acted as a go-between to lure the model to Paris for a liaison with the Brazilian sporting hero.
She admitted to wanting to have sex with him when she agreed to meet him in France but said he became aggressive and raped her.
Ms Trindade also claims the Paris St Germain striker was ‘seemingly intoxicated’ when he went to her hotel on the first of two nights.
The police statement, written in Portuguese, states: ‘The victim testified at this unit of the Women's Protection Police Station that she met Neymar through the Instagram social network and that they started exchanging messages.
‘Neymar's assistant "Gallo" then got in touch with her on May 12th and booked a flight and a hotel for her in Paris.
‘She left for Paris on 14th May, arrived on 15th May and stayed at the Hotel Sofitel Paris Arc de Triomphe.
Brazilian soccer player Neymar speaks to journalists as he leaves a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
‘The victim states that at around 8pm of the same day Neymar went to her hotel, seemingly intoxicated.
‘They began chatting and cuddling, but at a certain point he became aggressive, and through violence had sex with the victim without her consent.
‘The victim states that she left Paris for Brazil on May 17th. She affirms that she was fearful of filing a complaint in a foreign country preferring to do so at this precinct instead.’
She has spent the weekend holed up in an 11th floor apartment of a Sao Paulo tower block after giving further evidence to police on Friday.
In her second interview she told police a tablet which allegedly
