Spanish former head of Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual abuse | News of women’s rights
Rubialies declared the guilt of sexual abuse of football player Jenni Hermoso by forcibly kissing her and ordending to pay well.
The Spanish Court found a former football chief Luis Rubiales Guilty of sexual abuse for kissing football players Jenni Hermoso without her consent after the finals of the 2023 Women’s Cup.
Rubiales, who was released for coercion, received a fine of 10,000 euros on Thursday ($ 10,455) by the Audiencia Nacional Court. He was ordered not to go within 200 meters (660 feet) from Hermos and is forbidden to communicate with her for a year.
The incident switched Spanish victory In the World Cup for women in 2023 and launched a discussion of the sexism that athletes face. 47-year-old Rubiales resigned In September 2023 in the middle of widespread anger.
While Hermoso stated that the kiss was not mutual and said the court That she felt a “dishonest” act, Rubiales claimed to be. Told the court on Tuesday that He stayed “Absolutely sure” that the kiss was agreement.
Prosecutors sought prison time For Rubiales, composed of one year for an attack for 18 months due to coercion, claiming that Rubiales and several distinguished Spanish football officials tried to force Hermos to say that the kiss had been communicated and reduced the incident.
The court refused to convic Rubiales in prison and liberated it and the three coercive coercives.
Judge Jose Manuel Fernandez-Prieto said he believed that Hermon’s testimony was that she had not agreed to a kiss. He returned to a sexual attack, “though always reproachful”, less intensity because there was no violence or intimidation.
“The judge realizes that, given the size of the attack, the kiss, that it is a sporadic act of the accused and that he does not require a special rehabilitation for the crime, he must be chosen by a fine, which is less serious than the custody sentence,” the verdict said.
The 34-year-old Hermoso, all the time of the best scorer of the Spanish women’s team, told the court earlier this month that the unwanted kiss and crowds that followed “twisted one of the happiest days of my life”, while those teammates testified that the incident left her Exhausted, crying and overwhelmed.
“As a woman, I felt unfair,” Hermoso said at the trial.
“It is very important for me to say that at no point I was looking for that act, let alone expect.”
