Spanish courtroom launches preliminary investigation Luis Rubiales kiss
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ache’s prime felony courtroom has opened a preliminary investigation into the nation’s soccer federation president Luis Rubiales after he kissed participant Jenni Hermoso on the lips.
The prosecutors are trying into whether or not the incident quantities to against the law of sexual assault.
Rubiales, 46, has been broadly criticised after the incident following Spain’s Women’s World Cup closing win.
Hermoso, 33, mentioned the kiss was not consensual.
Rubiales was suspended on Saturday by world soccer’s governing physique Fifa.
The earlier day, Rubiales had insisted he would not resign.
The courtroom mentioned it was opening the investigation in mild of the “unequivocal nature” of Hermoso’s statements, saying it was vital “to determine their legal significance”.
“Given the public statements made by Jennifer Hermoso, the sexual act she was subjected to by (Luis) Rubiales was not consensual,” a press release mentioned
Meanwhile the mom of the spanish soccer chief has locked herself inside a church and introduced a starvation strike in protest at her son’s “inhumane treatment” over his unsolicited kiss,
Angeles Bejar mentioned her strike would final “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, in line with EFE news company.
According to EFE, Bejar stayed contained in the parish church of Divina Pastora in Rubiales’ hometown in southern Spain, Motril, along with her sister after the parish priest left.
She requested Hermoso to inform the reality and “stick to the version she gave at the beginning”, EFE added.
“There is no sexual abuse since there is consent on both sides, as the images prove,” Bejar informed EFE as she questioned “why they’re taking it out on him” and what “is behind this whole story”.
“My son is incapable of hurting anyone,” Bejar mentioned.
Rubiales, 46, has been defiant over the kiss – which has been condemned as undesirable by Hermoso, her staff mates and the Spanish authorities – arguing it was consensual.
At a federation assembly on Friday the place he had been broadly anticipated to step down, Rubiales as a substitute refused to give up, searching for to defend his behaviour and calling the kiss “spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual”.
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has issued a press release for him, saying Rubiales “will defend himself legally in the competent bodies” to show “his complete innocence”.
Hermoso mentioned she didn’t consent to the kiss and felt “vulnerable and the victim of an aggression”.