Spain’s previous football chief Luis Rubiales goes on trial on Monday over the constrained kiss he gave star forward Jenni Hermoso with the player planned to require the stand.
The 47-year-old incited around the world shock after he measured Hermoso’s head and gave her a spontaneous kiss after Spain beat Britain to win the 2023 Women’s World Glass in Australia.
Prosecutors are looking for two and a half a long time in jail for Rubiales, one year for a sexual attack for the constrained kiss and 18 months for supposedly coercing Hermoso, 34, to make light of the occurrence.
The kiss was given “unexpectedly and without the assent or acknowledgment of the player”, prosecutors composed in their arraignment.
“Constant and rehashed weight was applied straightforwardly on the player Jennifer Hermoso and through her family and companions with the point of defending and freely endorsing the kiss that Luis Rubiales gave her against her will,” it included.
The exceedingly expected trial gets underway at the National Court in San Fernando de Henares close to Madrid at 10:00 am (0900 GMT) and is anticipated to run until February 19.
Rubiales is planned to require the stand on February 12. He has called the kiss a harmless “peck between companions celebrating” and denied any coercion.
Among the charged nearby Rubiales are women’s national group coach Jorge Vilda and two previous alliance authorities, Ruben Rivera and Albert Luque.
They also stand blamed for attempting to coerce Hermoso with prosecutors looking for 18 months’ imprisonment against them.
The embarrassment that shook Spanish football and destroyed Rubiales’ career broke on Admirable 20, 2023, minutes after the women’s national group had clinched World Glass radiance in Sydney.
As Hermoso joined her colleagues in collecting their winner’s awards, Rubiales clasped her head and kissed her on the lips sometime recently letting her go with two slaps on the back.
The act unleashed an open objection to what pundits considered a manhandling of control. A later change in the Spanish criminal code classifies a non-consensual kiss as a sexual ambush.
Rubiales, who was as of now beneath examination for affirmed debasement in his part as alliance head, at last, gave in to weight and ventured down in September 2023, two days after the beginning of a test over the kiss. He has been alliance chief since 2018.
