Alexia, Irene and Misa testify this Monday at the National Court for the Rubiales case

2023-10-01 19:35:49

This Monday, the National Court will experience a new key day in the investigation of the Rubiales case. Judge Francisco de Jorge has called three of Jenni Hermoso’s colleagues to testify as witnesses: Alexia Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez. The judge wants to question them about the alleged coercion received by the player and for his family and friends to publicly exonerate Luis Rubiales for the non-consensual kiss he gave him after the World Cup final.

The forecast is that Misa, Real Madrid’s goalkeeper and resident in the capital – in addition to being one of Jenni’s best friends in the world of football – appears at the National Court starting at 10:00 a.m., while Alexia and Irene, who play for Barça, testify via video conference from Barcelona.

The list of witnesses in the Rubiales case

Their testimonies will be added to those that the judge has already collected. from Jenni’s brother and a friend; that of Rubiales’s defense experts; that of the press officer of the women’s team, Patricia Perez; and that of the former director of integrity of the RFEF, Miguel García Caba. In addition to, of course, that of Rubiales himself.

Furthermore, on Friday the judge decided to summon, also as witnesses, the men’s national team coach, Luis de la Fuente, who must go to the National Court on the 20th; and five more RFEF workers, who will do so on the 26th: the director and deputy director of communication, Pablo García-Cuervo and Enrique Yunta; the psychologist of the women’s team, Javier Lopez Vallejo; Rubiales’s chief of staff, Chema Timon; and the compliance officer Javier Puyol.

New dismissal in the RFEF

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García-Cuervo, however, He was fired the same Friday by the president of the RFEF manager, Pedro Rocha, continuing with the purge that began with the dismissal of the general secretary, Andrew Fieldsand the integrity director, Miguel García Caba.

Before, on the 10th, the former women’s coach, Jorge Vilda, will attend the National Court; and the marketing director of the RFEF, Ruben Rivera. Both, like the director of the men’s team, Albert Lukethey will go before the judge as investigated (accused) for the coercion of Jenni, whom De Jorge has not yet summoned to obtain her testimony about the sexual assault and coercion.