After judgment in February
Kiss scandal: Prosecutor demands new procedures
06.03.2025 – 2:32 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The judgment was spoken in February. But the kiss scandal around Spain’s ex-association chief is probably not yet laid.
The prosecutor Marta Durántz Gil has appealed in the case of former Spanish football leader Luis Rubiales for a sexual assault at the Women’s World Cup 2023. In a lawsuit that is available to the AFP news agency, she demanded that “the procedure are declared invalid” and a new hearing “with another judge who at least does not seem to be shaped by bias”.
In her justification, Durántz Gil accused judge José Manuel Fernández-Prieto to “have taken the opportunity to ask several witnesses relevant questions” and also complained “incoherency of the judgment”.
In the first instance, Durántez had asked Gil for two and a half years in prison for ruby. The former Spanish leader of the association, who, like Jennifer Hermoso, announced a appeal against the judgment, had been fined in February with a fine of 10,800 euros. The 47-year-old, like the other three defendants, had been acquitted of allegation of coercion. Rubiales are also forbidden for a year to approach Hermoso within a radius of 200 meters.
After the World Cup triumph in Australia, Rubiales had grabbed the head with both hands on the head and kissed it on the mouth. The scene, which was transferred worldwide on television, triggered outrage. Since a reform of Spanish criminal law, a non -mutually acceptable kiss has been a sexual assault.