Jennifer Hermoso confirms that Rubiales’ kiss was not consented to and that she felt coerced

2024-01-02 16:49:45

The player of the Spanish National Team Jennifer Hermoso has ratified this Tuesday at the National Court that the kiss given to him by the former president of the Real Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales after winning the World Cup it was not consented to and that she felt coerced.

Legal sources consulted by Europa Press have confirmed that Hermoso has ratified before the judge Francisco de Jorge what he testified before the deputy prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Durántez, before proceedings were initiated.

This Tuesday, Hermoso insisted that the kiss was unexpected and at no time consented. Likewise, he reiterated that after the kiss, both on the flight back to Spain and during his stay in Ibiza, he suffered constant compulsions which altered his normal life, causing him a situation of restlessness and sadness, according to these sources.

The player testified before the Central Court of Inquiry number 1, where she was summoned to appear this Tuesday after she was initially summoned on past November 28but it will be postponed because two defenses – including those of Rubiales himself – requested its postponement in match them with other judicial processes.

Hermoso arrived at 9:50 a.m. at the National Court to testify before the investigating judge investigating Rubiales for alleged crimes of sexual assault and coercion for the kiss on the mouth that he gave the player.

“I didn’t expect it,” he told the prosecutor

It should be remembered that the player had already appeared before the lieutenant prosecutor. In that statement, revealed by Telecinco, the soccer player assured that she had not felt respected. “They were subjecting me to something that I at no time sought or did anything to find myself in this situation,” he revealed.

“I saw myself with a kiss on the mouth and I immediately got off the stage with my colleagues,” recalled Hermoso to questions from the prosecutor. “I didn’t even expect it,” added the athlete. At this point, the soccer player recalled that the World Cup victory was a “historical fact” that it cost “life to achieve it”.

“At no time could I have expected that something like this would happen in the end (…) In a person of trust, I believe that no one would expect that he would do something like that at a time like that, no matter how spontaneous it was,” he retract Hermoso, who also explained that when he got off the stage he explained what happened with Rubiales to his teammates Alexia Putellas i Irene Paredes.

Rubiales: A consented display of affection

Before the judge, Rubiales defended that the kiss was a “show of affection” that was produce “naturally”, in the light of “millions of eyes” and that it was “with consent”. To questions from Hermoso’s lawyer, he asserted that it was one totally extraordinary celebration“, which he asked the player before kissing her and which happened “with consent”.

“Yes, I asked him before how I’m not going to respect her?”, he answered the question of whether he considered that he had respected the player by kissing her on the mouth, to then point out that Hermoso after this episode episode “is he peed laughing.”