Rubiales was cleared of the cost of coercion for attempting to downplay the kiss on the lips of Hermoso throughout the Girls’s World Cup awards ceremony after the ultimate in Sydney.
Former president of the Spanish Soccer Federation, Luis Rubiales, has been discovered responsible of sexually assaulting participant Jenni Hermoso for kissing her after the 2023 Girls’s World Cup closing.
He was fined greater than €10,000 in Audiencia Nacional court docket and ordered to not get inside 200 meters of Hermoso or talk along with her for a yr.
Rubiales was cleared of the cost of coercion for attempting to downplay the kiss on the lips of Hermoso throughout the awards ceremony after the ultimate in Sydney.
The kiss sparked outrage in Spain and marred the celebrations of Spain’s first Girls’s World Cup title.
Rubiales stated Hermoso consented to the kiss, one thing she denied.
Three different former Spanish federation members accused of coercion — former ladies’s crew coach Jorge Vilda, sports activities director of the boys’s crew Albert Luque, and head of selling Ruben Rivera —had been cleared.
Hermoso stated throughout her testimony she “felt disrespected” by Rubiales after profitable the World Cup.
She stated she was pressured into recording a video with Rubiales, the then federation president and vice chairman of UEFA, to downplay the kiss.
Rubiales and the opposite defendants stated they by no means tried to stress Hermoso into doing something. They claimed she did not give any significance to the kiss when it occurred.
Rubiales resigned underneath stress three weeks after the scandal surfaced and was banned by FIFA for 3 years. He had stated he was the sufferer of a “witch hunt” by “false feminists.”
Throughout his testimony he stated he regretted the kiss as a result of it wasn’t the correct angle for a nationwide federation president. He stated it shouldn’t be thought-about sexual assault, although.
The kiss prompted widespread outrage in society past soccer and ignited one of the crucial embarrassing scandals within the historical past of the sport in Spain.
