The kiss on the mouth that Luis Rubiales gave the player Jenni Hermoso was “not consensual,” said the prosecutor of the former president of the Spanish Football Federation, who maintained his request for two, on Wednesday. years and a half arrest for the former leader.
“It was a non -consensual kiss, after the tests there is no doubt, or reasonable doubt enough,” said Promoter Marta Durántez at the trial against Rubiales for alleged sexual aggression and coercion of Hermoso, facts that occurred during the celebration of the World Cup victory in August 2023 in Sidney.
“There is no precedent for animosity” that could have led hermose to “not tell the truth about what happened” and about “the subsequent coercion” she said she suffered to say that the kiss had been consensual, in the face of the world scandal that followed, he added.
“There is total coherence between the facts narrated by” hermoso and “their immediate and later behavior,” he emphasized Durántez, criticizing one of the defense lines of Rubiales and the other defendants, which is that Hermoso participated in the World Cup celebrations afterwards later of what happened.
In the year 2025, “makes me feel a certain rejection … I have to continue to ask the victims of sexual aggression why it was laughing, why it celebrated.”
The prosecutor made these statements on the penultimate day of the trial of Rubiales and three other defendants, these only for the coercion of Hermoso.
They are the former Spanish female team coach, Jorge Vilda, and two former RFEF employees, Rubén Rivera and Albert Luque, for whom the prosecutor also maintained her sentence, in this case of 18 months in prison.
The trial, which began on Monday, had the testimony of Hermoso and the accused, as well as teammates like Alexia Putellas.
