JENNI Hermoso instructed day one in every of a Madrid trial on Monday that she gave no permission to have the ‘notorious’ kiss planted on her by ex-Spanish Soccer Federation president Luis Rubiales.
The incident overshadowed Spain’s glory in lifting the Ladies’s World Cup in Sydney again in August 2023.
Rubiales, 47, is charged with sexual assault and accused of making an attempt to stress Hermoso and others to publicly help him.
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Jenni Hermoso testified that she didn’t consent to the kiss and that she felt coerced to publicly exonerate Rubiales after the incident.
“I felt disrespected … I feel it was a second that… nicely, they stained one of many happiest days of my life,” Hermoso mentioned.
Rubiales has denied the fees, however was pressured to resign from the Spanish FA and banned from FIFA for 3 years.
He has claimed that he’s the sufferer of a witch hunt by ‘faux’ feminists and that the kiss was consensual.
Prosecutors, Hermoso and the Spanish Footballers’ Affiliation have requested for a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for Rubiales, the fee of €50,000 in compensation, and a life ban from being a sports activities administrator.
Requested if Rubiales ever requested permission to kiss her, Hermoso mentioned no.
“At the moment, I didn’t hear or perceive something. The following factor when he put his arms on my ears was the following act of kissing me on the mouth,” Hermoso mentioned.
The trial is predicted to final at the least 10 days and among the many practically 20 witnesses who’ve been summoned to testify are males’s nationwide workforce coach Luis de la Fuente and a few of Hermoso’s teammates, together with Alexia Putellas, former participant of the yr.
Additionally within the dock are former Spain coach Jorge Vilda, Spanish males’s sporting director Albert Luque and former federation advertising and marketing chief Ruben Rivera.
They face expenses of coercion for making an attempt to stress Hermoso into saying the Rubiales kiss was consensual.
