Luis Rubiales, former head of the Spanish National Football Federation who refrained the victory of the World Cup women’s team in 2023 in 2023 kiss on the lips of players Jenni Hermoso During the medal ceremony, he was found guilty on Thursday for sexual abuse for the act.
The Spanish High Court sentenced Rubiales for a forced kiss attack and fined 10,800 euros ($ 11,300).
Rubial has also been ordered not to enter 650 feet from Hermos, and he cannot contact her for a year, according to the order of the court. His lawyer, Olga Tubau Martinez, announced shortly after the verdict that she would appeal the court’s decision.
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Rubiales was acquitted, along with three other defendants, with a separate charges of coercion after being accused by Hermoso of trying to force her to support him after a kiss, who became one of the greatest scandals in the history of Spanish football.
Prosecutors pushed Rubiales to close for two and a half years.
Hermoso, 34, who plays in the Mexican Football League, as well as for her national team, said she received death threats as a return reaction against Rubiales, and what is considered institutional sexism in Spanish sports.
Rubiales and his supporters – including his mother, which went on a hunger strike in the church to protest Treatment of her son – they were unpailing out, describing the kiss as “mutual and agreed on the act” and inviting those who did not agree “idiots and stupid people. “
Rubiales declared that he was not guilty of all charges, claiming during the trial in Madrid that he was “absolutely sure that she had given me his permission.”
During his testimony, Hermoso told the court that “one of the happiest days of my life was stunned, and I think it is very important for me to tell me that I have never sought, even less expected, that it will happen. I think it’s person was a lack of respect. “
“I spent years struggling to win the title for my team, like the World Cup,” she said. “But all that happened to me means that I just failed to enjoy any of the time I returned to Madrid. I am a world champion, but it seems that, even to this day, my life has been on standby .
