Luis Rubiales, a former president of the royal Spanish Football Federation, was found guilty of kissing Jenni Hermoso’s high court in Madrid without consent.
Rubiales was ordered to pay a fine of over 10,000 euros (£ 8.275) Hermos after kissing her lips in Spanish victory over England in the finals of the Women’s Cup 2023.but the prosecutors were not successful in their offer that he had received him a prison sentence.
The 47-year-old was also cleared of forcing Hermos to consider a kiss consensitive.
The counterase overshadowed the historic day for the women’s national team of Hermos and Spain as a whole, and the player admitted that the illegal incident “pointed out one of the happiest days of” her life.
Providing evidence of the first day of court proceedings, Hermoso told the High Court that she had never given any consent to kiss. In response, Rubiales said, “I’m absolutely sure she gave me a permit,” before adding “At that moment it was something completely spontaneous.”
Rubiales, who resigned from his Rfef role in September 2023. After the mounting pressure, was also ordered not to go within 200 meters from Hermos for a year and to refrain from any contact with the player for the same time period. The decision can complain if Rubiales and his legal team want to start that route.
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