THE trial ended on Friday of former Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales over the notorious kiss planted on Jenni Hermoso.
A verdict and attainable sentencing from Decide Jose Manuel Clemente Fernandez-Prieto is predicted inside a number of weeks following 10 days of testimony on the Madrid space courthouse.
“With this, consider it or not, we’re achieved,” the choose joked after Rubiales plus three others accused of making an attempt to pressurise Hermoso handed on their proper to make last statements.
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Luis Rubiales is accused of sexual assault for kissing Hermoso in 2023 following Spain’s triumph on the ladies’s World Cup in Australia, in addition to coercion for allegedly making an attempt to persuade the participant to downplay the incident afterwards.
Hermoso, 34, says she didn’t consent to the kiss whereas Rubiales, 47, denies wrongdoing and argues it was consensual.
Prosecutors need two-and-a-half years in jail for Rubiales, one yr for sexual assault and 18 months for the coercion of Hermoso.
Among the many accused alongside Rubiales are ex-women’s nationwide staff coach Jorge Vilda and two former Spanish soccer federation officers.
They’ve been accused of making an attempt to coerce Hermoso with prosecutors in search of 18 months’ jail for them.
Video footage confirmed Rubiales clasping Hermoso’s head on the World Cup medal ceremony in Sydney and kissing her on the lips earlier than letting her go together with two slaps on the again.
Hermoso instructed the opening day of the trial she felt ‘disrespected’ after a non-consensual kiss that ‘mustn’t occur in any social or work setting’.
Rubiales instructed the court docket on Tuesday he was ‘completely positive’ Hermoso consented to the kiss and denied he had put strain on her after the incident.
“She squeezed me very tightly beneath my armpits, she lifted me, and after I got here down I requested her if I may give you a kiss, and she or he stated ‘OK’, that’s what occurred,” he stated, describing the kiss as ‘an act of affection’.
Rubiales conceded he ‘made a mistake’ on the rostrum and his behaviour ‘was not applicable’ however denied committing any offence.
He minimised the significance of the kiss on Hermoso on the time and defied requires his resignation at an emergency federation assembly in August 2023, railing towards what he referred to as ‘false feminism’.
Rubiales resigned the following month after FIFA suspended him and prosecutors opened an investigation into an alleged sexual assault.
