Just over two weeks after the incident, Spanish football player Jenni Hermoso filed a complaint after receiving an unconsented kiss from Luis Rubiales, the boss of the Spanish federation, said the Spanish prosecutor’s office on Wednesday. The gesture had provoked international indignation, even in the political ranks of the country.
The filing of this complaint was an essential condition for the prosecution, which had opened a preliminary investigation against Rubiales at the end of August for “sexual assault”, to be able to prosecute. These will now be able to be launched “as quickly as possible”, said the prosecution.
A few minutes after the women’s world title of Roja in Sydney, the boss of Spanish football had kissed on the mouth, by surprise, the number 10 of the national team. Pushed from all sides to resign, Luis Rubiales, in a virulent speech, refused to leave his post “because of a little kiss granted” and denounced a lawsuit brought by “false feminism”.
“unacceptable behavior”
FIFA suspended him on August 26 “from all football-related activity at national and international level” for 90 days and pending the progress of the procedures in progress.
On Monday, the players of the Spanish men’s football team castigated the “unacceptable behavior” of the now suspended boss of their federation.
“Our players have won twice: once on the pitch, and then by teaching the world a lesson, a lesson in equality between men and women,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said during a speech in Malaga last Saturday, welcoming the decision of the 23 world champions to no longer wear the jersey of the national team if the direction of the football federation was maintained.
