Luis Rubiales’ mum ‘taken to hospital’ on third day of starvation strike
The mom of Luis Rubiales has reportedly been taken to hospital amid her starvation strike in Spain. Angeles Bejar started the protest in defence of her son, the under-fire Spanish FA president, claiming that he’s the topic of a witch hunt.
Bejar is three days into her starvation strike. She introduced that she could be conducting the sit-in protest on the Divine Shepherdess Church close to Malaga on Monday.
Rubiales’ mom had deliberate to carry a press convention this night. That will not go forward.
Sky Sports report that Bejar has been taken to Santa Ana Hospital in Montril. It has not been disclosed why she is receiving medical care.
It is the newest exceptional twist from the fallout following Rubiales’ kiss on Jenni Hermoso after the Women’s World Cup last. The 47-year-old stays below mounting stress to resign because the president of the Spanish FA.
News of his mom’s hospital journey comes after studies that Rubiales has mounted a last-ditch defence to FIFA. The world soccer governing physique suspended the previous defender whereas it investigates his behaviour.
According to El Espanol, Rubiales has reportedly despatched unseen footage to FIFA of Spain’s ladies’s crew laughing and chanting ‘kiss’ after the World Cup last earlier this month. In the clip, members of the Spanish crew might be seen laughing at social media memes of Rubiales kissing Hermoso.
The ahead – who insists the kiss was non-consensual – is seen explaining how the Spanish soccer chief “all excited, came to me and grabbed me like this”.
Hermoso then demonstrates together with her palms precisely how Rubiales grabbed her face and kissed her. Her team-mates might be seen shouting “besi”, which means kiss, and “presi”, seemingly quick for ‘president’.
Later within the clip, Rubiales is seen saying he felt “embarrassed”. It shouldn’t be clear if he’s referring to the incident.
In her solely public assertion, Hermoso has described Rubiales’s kiss as ‘non-consensual’. Spain’s World Cup-winning crew have all signed a letter demanding that he resigns.
Another widely-shared video from the dressing room exhibits Hermoso saying she had disliked the kiss. She has since stated that her preliminary response to the kiss was one among “shock, due to the context of a celebration”.
With the whole sporting world anticipating Rubiales to step down amid mounting stress final week, he held an incredible press conference through which he repeatedly shouted: “No, I will not resign!”
Rubiales insists he requested Hermoso if he may give her a ‘peck’ as she emerged to gather her medal. Hermoso has strongly denied this model of occasions.