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The former Spanish football leader Luis Rubiales will call on the Supreme Court after having fine for having forcefully embraced Jenni Hermoso is confirmed.
The former leader of the Spanish football federation in disgrace, Luis Rubiales, will call on the Supreme Court the confirmation of his $ 12,600 (10,800-European) for having forcibly embraced Jenni Hermoso, his lawyer announced on Wednesday.
After a long -awaited trial which seized the country, the first criminal tribunal of Spain in February said rubials guilty of sexual assault For the kiss during the 2023 women’s World Cup, which generated world indignation.
The Audencia Nacional also erased him from a separate coercion accusation for having allegedly forced Hermoso to minimize the incident afterwards.
The two parties challenged the sentence, which was not below the prison sentence of two and a half years requested by the prosecutors and furious feminist groups who condemned punishment as too indulgent.
Rubiales argued that the kiss was a consensual “peak” between friends celebrating during a medal ceremony after the attacker of the Hermoso stars had just helped Spain to beat England in the final in Sydney, denying any coercion.
The court said in a statement on Wednesday that he rejected calls from the defense team and prosecutors, maintaining the conviction and the fine.
“The kiss was not consensual”, and Hermoso “expressed his dissatisfaction with what happened, as she confirmed herself in the trial, as well as her teammates,” the court wrote.
“We cannot say that a kiss under these circumstances was frequent, common or usual.”
The court also confirmed that Rubiales, the former director of the national female team Jorge Vilda and two former officials of the Senior Federation, Albert Luque and Ruben Rivera, were authorized for the accusation of coercion.
Rubial lawyer, Olga Tubau, told AFP’s news agency that he would call on the verdict at the Supreme Court.
A separate request from prosecutors to relaunch the trial, in particular due to doubts about the judge’s impartiality, has been rejected.
The court also maintained the ban on rubials to go within a radius of 200 meters (656 feet) of hermoso and to communicate with it for a year.
The kiss led to a global outcry which forced rubial to give up his post, saw him forbidden all the activities related to football for three years and plunged the federation in an extended period of troubles.
The case made hermoso, the top scorer of all time of the national women’s team, an icon of the fight against sexism and macho culture in sport.
Rubiales is also involved in an investigation into alleged financial irregularities totaling millions of euros linked to the relocation of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, which involved a company belonging to Barcelona Great Gerard Pique.
Rubials rejected allegations as “lies”.
