Luis Rubiales and Jennifer Hermoso. (Twitter)
The trial will likely be held on the Audiencia Nacional, a Madrid courtroom answerable for complicated instances, on a date but to be set, mentioned Judge Francisco de Jorge within the courtroom doc.
Disgraced former Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial for his forcible kiss on the lips of Women’s World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, a Spanish excessive courtroom decide determined Wednesday.
“(Rubiales will be tried) for the non-consensual kissing of Spanish national team player Jennifer Hermoso at the end of the World Cup final in Sydney on August 20 (2023), and for the subsequent coercion exerted to make her say publicly that it was consensual,” the courtroom mentioned in an announcement outlining the allegations.
The trial will likely be held on the Audiencia Nacional, a Madrid courtroom answerable for complicated instances, on a date but to be set, mentioned Judge Francisco de Jorge within the courtroom doc.
Public prosecution has requested a sentence of two-and-a-half years in jail for Luis Rubiales — one yr for sexual assault and 18 months for coercion.
The prosecution can also be asking for 2 years’ probation as soon as the sentence has been served and for him to pay 50,000 euros ($54,000) in compensation to the participant.
Judge De Jorge requested Luis Rubiales to publish bail of 65,000 euros ($70,000) inside 24 hours to cowl “any civil liabilities he may be ordered to pay”.
The decide additionally confirmed that former La Roja girls’s coach Jorge Vilda and two former federation officers would additionally face trial for alleged coercion of Hermoso.
Rubiales, 46, provoked worldwide outrage by giving Hermoso an unsolicited kiss through the medal ceremony after Spain beat England to win the World Cup in Australia final yr.
The former RFEF chief, additionally below investigation in a separate alleged corruption case involving his reign on the federation, has denied any wrongdoing.
Source: www.news18.com
