Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish football federation, was the protagonist of a controversial moment in 2023, after the women’s national team won the World Championship. Jennifer Hermoso received the gold medal, after which, in the moments of euphoria, she was kissed by rubies.
Luis Rubiales and Jenny Hermoso, at a controversial moment. TV capture
Although she did not look disturbed at that time, but not in the bus, when she was laughing and playing with her colleagues when she was watching the video with “forbidden kiss”, the footballer triggered a few weeks against the head of the Federation.
The trial was concluded yesterday, the judges decided that Luis Rubiales should be criminally fined 10,800 euros for coercion and to be banned from approaching 200 meters to his victim for one year.
The prosecutor had asked for two and a half years in prison for rubies
On February 12, prosecutor Marta Durántez Gil requested a two and a half years in prison for Rubiales, being accused of sexual assault and the exercise of pressure on Hermoso to declare that the kiss was consensual.
The sentence will be challenged by both sides. After Luis Rubiales announced yesterday that he will call, today and Jenniefer Hermoso announced, through the voice of her lawyer, that the same way will follow. “There is his intention to call”said Angel Chavarria, the one who represents the footballer.
