Justice gets involved. While for five days, many players in football and Spanish society have been calling for the resignation of the president of the Spanish federation Luis Rubiales, after he forcibly kissed the player Jenni Hermoso on the sidelines of the Cup final. of the women’s world, the man announced on Friday that he would not resign.
But the Madrid public prosecutor’s office has just announced that it has sent a complaint against Luis Rubiales to the National Court (Spanish national body of justice) for the facts that occurred in the final of the Women’s World Cup, many Spanish media report. , including public television RTVE. The prosecution specifies that it is “not competent because the events occurred outside Spain”, the competition being held in Australia.
The prosecution details that the complaint was filed by the president of the National School of Football Coaches of Spain (Cenafe), Miguel Galán, and that it “reports facts which could, if necessary, constitute an offense of sexual assault”, underlines the Catalan media TV3. It is now necessary that the prosecution of the National Audience decides the fate of the complaint which has been transmitted to it.
The Spanish public prosecutor, contacted by the RTVEindicates that no procedure is officially underway against Rubiales, but that four complaints have already been received before this one and that they could be transmitted to the National Audience.
The government launches a suspension procedure
As announced in the event of non-resignation, the Spanish government must also launch a suspension procedure against Luis Rubiales after he refused to hand over his mandate at the extraordinary general assembly of the federation Spanish footballer, reports the daily The country.
“All the actions that are necessary to dismiss him will be taken”, assured the Minister of Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera, quoted by RTVE on the sidelines of a visit to the Canary Islands. Many members of the government had already expressed their dismay at midday, from the Minister for Equality to the Deputy Prime Minister.
The Spanish Higher Sports Council has announced that it will take the case to the Administrative Court for Sport for “serious misconduct”: “The intervention of Mr. Rubiales before the Assembly of the Federation is absolutely incompatible with the function that he occupies in Spanish sport and with the values of an advanced society like those of Spanish society”, indicated Víctor Francos on Spanish public television. A press conference must take place at the end of the day to give more details on the procedures envisaged.
