World champion Jenni Hermoso confirmed before the judge that the kiss that the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales gave her after the World Cup final was unexpected and at no time consensual, and confirmed that she felt pressured to come to his defense.
The soccer player testified this Tuesday in the National Court for more than two hours before the magistrate who is investigating Rubiales, disqualified by FIFA, for a crime of sexual assault and another of coercion for what happened after the team’s World Cup victory last year. August 20 in Sydney (Australia).
As expected, the player once again denied Rubiales’ version, who always maintained that the kiss was consensual, by ratifying point by point the statement she gave before the Prosecutor’s Office on September 5 and which led to the filing of a complaint against him. former president of the RFEF and in the opening of a case against him and three members of his team when he presided over the RFEF.
When asked by the prosecutor’s office, Jenni Hermoso, a new player for Tigres UANL from Mexico, maintained that the kiss her superior gave her was unexpected and that she never consented to it, and she acknowledged that she experienced harassment from the four people under investigation who It produced restlessness and sadness, according to legal sources explaining to Efe. Due to these alleged pressures, in addition to Rubiales, former women’s coach Jorge Vilda is being investigated; the director of the men’s team, Albert Luque; and the head of marketing of the RFEF, Rubén Rivera. The four denied all the facts.
These pressures are framed in the moments after the match, both the flight back to Spain and the trip to Ibiza that some players enjoyed, as stated by the footballer, who referred to some specific moments.
Jenni confirmed, for example, that Rubiales went to talk to her on the plane back after the World Cup and asked her, for her “daughters”, to make a joint statement; that Vilda tried to contact her brother, and that a friend who accompanied her to Ibiza received a call to mediate the situation, according to sources consulted by Efe.
The international, who when questioned by judge Francisco de Jorge acknowledged that she was little by little realizing the seriousness of the situation, reiterated that she did not write the statement that the RFEF made public on her behalf in which she downplayed what happened and who asked them to leave her alone.
The defense version
The defenses brought up their first interview moments after the game, in which they said that what happened was due to “the emotion of the moment,” although Jenni Hermoso recalled that even then she made it clear that she did not like what happened. The lawyer of the former president of the Federation wanted to know what the relationship was between Rubiales and Jenni Hermoso, and she, according to sources, explained that they called each other quite frequently but that they did not have any friendship.
Upon leaving her statement, which was surrounded by great media expectation, the international declared to the media that were waiting for her at the doors of the court that “everything went well” and that “everything is now in the hands of justice.”
Jenni Hermoso, who stated that she is “very well” and “strong”, has been the last to testify in a case that began last September and is now facing its final stretch.
2024-01-03 03:00:33
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