Jenni Hermoso declared before the Prosecutor’s Office that Rubiales’ kiss was not consensual: “I did not feel respected as a person”

2023-10-09 22:57:38

Updated Monday, October 9, 2023 – 22:57

“They were subjecting me to something that I never sought,” he told the prosecutor.

Jenni Hermoso, in a file image. SERGIO ENRQUEZ-NISTAL

The player of the Spanish National Team Jenni Hermoso He declared to questions from the Prosecutor’s Office that the kiss that the former president of the Real Federacin Espaola de Ftbol (RFEF) Luis Rubiales He was not consented to nor did he feel respected as a person and footballer. “They were subjecting me to something that I never sought or did to find myself in that situation,” he revealed.

In the tax declaration, advanced by the program Telecinco code 10, The soccer player has narrated the moment in which she received the kiss after Espaa he will win Women’s World Cup. According to his story, he hugged Rubiales and stated: “The one we messed up.” Afterwards, the former president of the RFEF jumped on her and commented “we won this World Cup thanks to you.”

“The next thing was his hands on my head and then I didn’t hear anything else. I saw myself with the kiss on my mouth and I immediately went down to the stage with my companions,” Hermoso recalled when asked by the prosecutor of the National Court Marta Durntez. “I didn’t even expect it,” added the athlete.

At this point, the soccer player recalled that the World Cup victory was a “historical event” that cost “a lifetime to achieve.” “At no time could I expect something like this to happen in the end (…) In a trusted person “I don’t think anyone expected that I was going to use that moment to do something like that, no matter how spontaneous it was,” reproached Hermoso, who also explained that when he got off the stage he told what happened with Rubiales to his teammates. Alexia Putellas e Irene Paredes.

Expressly questioned as to whether the kiss was consensual andIf you felt violated or violated, Beautiful I answered that: “Clearly I felt disrespected. At that moment I was not respected at any time, neither as a player nor as a person, I was experiencing something that was historic,” she added.