The national team players Alexia PutellasIrene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez ratified this Monday in the National Court, according to sources present in the statement, the facts included by the Prosecutor’s Office in the complaint for sexual assault and coercion allegedly committed by the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales against his partner Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup victory in Australia.
Rodríguez arrived on her own at the headquarters of the National Court, where she had been summoned by the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1 shortly before ten in the morning, while Putellas and Paredes gave statements from the City of Justice of Barcelona by videoconference, also as witnesses. The appearances lasted for about three hours.
None of them wanted to say anything after completing the judicial process. Putellas limited himself to: “I’m sorry, we can’t,” while she left the courthouse with her partner surrounded by police.
All of them have been asked about their knowledge of the specific episodess in which the pressure on the player, after the medal ceremony, when getting off the bus that took them to the Australian airport and during the flight, related to the preparation of the statement in which the player was expected to downplay what happened. Putella and Rodríguez have also been asked about the coercion that could have continued during the players’ stay in Ibiza, where members of the Federation Albert Luque and Rubén Rivera attended.
After these appearances, the next scheduled proceedings are those of the rest of those investigated who are not Rubiales. The first two are the former coach of the Women’s National Team Jorge Vilda and the Marketing Director of the RFEF, Rubén Rivera, summoned for October 10, and six days later it will be the turn of the director of the Men’s National Team, Albert Luque, also as investigated.
Later, on October 20, you will hear as witnesses from the men’s coach Luis de la Fuente, the RFEF Communication Director, Pablo García Cuervo, and the Deputy Director of Communication, Enrique Yunta. Finally, on the 27th, the judge summoned the psychologist of the women’s team, Javier López Vallejo, the former director of Luis Rubiales’ cabinet, José María Timón, and the person in charge of compliance for the team, Javier Pujol.
It remains to be determined when the statement will be made by senior player Jenni Hermoso, who is currently participating in the Mexican Women’s First Division defending the colors of Pachuca. Legal sources indicated Europa Press that the magistrate has expressly requested that your statement be in person, Therefore, he will probably have to take advantage of a trip he makes to Spain or wait for the competition to end.
pressure tests
For the moment, the testimonies of Hermoso’s entourage, specifically his brother Rafael and a friend of the player, have made it possible to confirm, at least indirectly, according to the legal sources consulted, that Rubiales’ entourage had tried to pressure the player to say that the A kiss on the mouth given by the former manager was accepted in a moment of euphoria after the victory in Sydney. For its part, Rubiales’s defense, carried out by the lawyer Olga Tubau, tries to demonstrate this hypothesis and to this end has already provided the testimony of lip reading experts that they would have confirmed that in the videos captured by the press during the events he would have asked the international if they could have “a quick bite.”
After the interrogation of the former president of the Federation himself on September 15, the instructor agreed at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office that he could not communicate with the player during the investigation of the open case, also prohibiting him from approaching her within 200 meters.
Rubiales denied before the judge that there was coercion towards the senior player and her entourage, as well as that there was a lack of consent in the kiss on the mouth that he gave her. Hermoso assured the opposite in his statement before the Prosecutor’s Office, which led to the filing of the complaint.
2023-10-02 11:23:00
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