Luis Rubiales

Madrid. The protection of the previous president of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales has requested the acquittal of the previous director, guaranteeing that the kiss he gave to the soccer participant Jennifer Hermoso was “a manifestation of euphoria”, denying that there was a “sexual temper” in her conduct or that she subsequently coerced the participant to fluctuate her model of occasions.

That is clear from her protection temporary, collected by Europa Press, during which her lawyer emphasizes that the kiss occurred in a state of “most pleasure and satisfaction for the extraordinary sporting triumph of the Spanish Girls’s Soccer Workforce” within the World Cup in Sydney, ruling out that Rubiales acted with a “libidinous temper.”

It needs to be remembered that the Prosecutor’s Workplace of the Nationwide Courtroom asks to condemn Rubiales to 2 years and 6 months: 1 12 months in jail for against the law of sexual assault and 1 12 months and 6 months for against the law of coercion because the perpetrator. It was final January when the decide of the Nationwide Courtroom Francisco de Jorge proposed attempting Rubiales, contemplating that the kiss on the participant “was not consensual” and that the previous chief acted in a “unilateral and shocking” method.

His illustration evaluations what occurred “in the course of the celebration of the medal ceremony for the gamers.” “In the intervening time Hermoso reached Rubiales, they each opened their arms, hugging one another affectionately, Hermoso saying to Rubiales: ‘The one we have tousled,'” the letter states, which highlights that he replied: “This World Cup We’ve gained due to you.”

The protection maintains that “this second had a particular which means for Hermoso as he had suffered deep disappointment in the course of the ultimate match after lacking a penalty, and Rubiales needed to point out her with these phrases that she was a participant of nice worth.” “In the intervening time of that hug, Hermoso managed to raise Rubiales off the bottom, and when he had his toes again on the platform, whereas they had been nonetheless hugging, they gave one another a kiss on the cheeks, and after they separated their heads, Rubiales stated: his palms on Hermoso’s cheeks,” he provides.

“Can I offer you a kiss?”

It was at that second when the then president of the RFEF would have requested the query: “Can I offer you a kiss?” “Okay,” Hermoso would have responded, which in keeping with the writing led to the incident. “Hermoso, removed from making any gesture that exposed rejection, discomfort or annoyance, when he started to separate from Rubiales, he slapped him twice on the left and proper sides, strolling away from him smiling,” the protection alleges.

The writing consists of Hermoso’s statements after the incident, during which they spotlight that he didn’t present his disagreement with the kiss. He additionally particulars that, after seeing the commotion that arose on social networks because of it, Rubiales approached Hermoso on the return airplane to ask him “for the potential for them going out collectively in entrance of the media, to ensure that her to reiterate” that he himself was consented to. The participant advised him “that she didn’t need to do it, and Rubiales revered that call,” the protection says.

“Rubiales didn’t ask or order at any time,” the letter states, to the then nationwide ladies’s coach Jorge Vilda, the then head of Advertising and marketing of the RFEF Rubén Rivera or the sports activities director of the establishment at the moment “to talk or mediate with Hermoso or with the folks in his household and private setting to ensure that him to make public statements with Rubiales stating that the kiss had been consensual.”

Waiting for the oral listening to – for which no date has but been set – Rubiales’ lawyer asks that former RFEF administrators testify as witnesses, footballers akin to Alexia Putellas or Irene Paredes, the present coach Montse Tomé or the 2 daughters of Rubiales.

And, he explains, each had been at “the ultimate of the Girls’s Soccer World Cup in Sydney and traveled again on the airplane to Spain together with the gamers, their household and mates and the members of the RFEF, with the ability to present precious parts to the Courtroom. of Prison Issues about what occurred on the flight again to Spain”.

His illustration additionally requests that, amongst others, the professional report of lip studying of the phrases that Rubiales spoke earlier than kissing Hermoso, and which was carried out by two specialists from the Group of Deaf Individuals of Granada and province, be supplied.