2023-08-31 12:02:00
Luis Rubiales’ mother was on her third day on a hunger strike to protest her son’s suspension for forcibly kissing a Spanish player.
By LL with AFP Luis Rubiales’ mother had promised to stay locked up in this church until “the truth” is told. © EIDAN RUBIO / RFEF / AFP Published on 08/31/2023 at 12:02
Luis Rubiales’ mother was admitted to hospital on Wednesday on the third day of her hunger strike. She was campaigning against the suspension of her son, the boss of Spanish football, who forcibly kissed a player during Spain’s world title.
Angeles Bejar – who had taken refuge since Monday in the Divina Pastora church in Motril in the south of Spain in order to protest against the “harassment” to which her son was, according to her, the object – was evacuated on Wednesday after midday by the emergency services which took her to the hospital, announced to the press Antonio Rodríguez, the parish priest, on the forecourt of the church.
“I have to tell you that she had a seizure,” he said, without giving further details about the nature of this seizure. “We had to rush him to the hospital. She is no longer there,” the priest explained, adding that Angeles Bejar was “tired, with a lot of problems and not just emotionally.”
She refused to leave the church
Luis Rubiales’ mother promised to stay locked up in this church until Jenni Hermoso, the player kissed by surprise on the mouth by her son, “tells the truth” about what happened, according to her niece Vanessa Ruiz Bejar, the cousin of Luis Rubiales.
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“This harassment is not fair. His mother, who is very religious, found refuge with God. She has started a hunger strike and does not want to leave the church,” she said Monday on the threshold of the Divina Pastora church in Motril, the city where Luis Rubiales grew up. Reached by AFP, the Motril hospital did not confirm that she had been admitted among the patients.
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