Luis Rubiales, the former chairman of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF), was sentenced on Thursday to a fine of 10,800 euros because of the unwanted kiss on the mouth of the striker Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final of women’s football in 2023. That. report Spanish media.
The Public Prosecution Service demanded a year in prison for assault and also a year and a half in prison because Rubiales Hermoso would have put pressure to support him publicly. However, the Court spoke to him free of the accusation of coercion.
The judge announced that Rubiales, although he is chairman of the RFEF, did not abuse his position and authority relationship. And although it is a “reprehensible act”, according to the court, the kiss was given “in the euphoria of the celebration.”
Rubiales kissed Hermoso during the medal ceremony on the mouth. Shortly after the incident, Hermoso made it clear that the kiss was undesirable, while Rubiales lasted that it had happened with mutual consent. The Spanish Football Association was on the Rubiales side. A few hours after the kiss, for example, the union published a statement on behalf of Hermoso, which stated that the kiss was a spontaneous and mutual gesture. However, Hermoso said that she had never approved the statement.
The incident led to great indignation in Spain, where the debate about sexual cross -border behavior flared up in all its intensity. The criticism of rubiales grew because he refused to resign his function for a long time because he “had done nothing wrong” and there would have been a “witch hunt.”
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