Spanish football federation | The National Court summons Albert Luque and three other RFEF employees as witnesses for the kiss on Jenni Hermoso

2023-09-21 16:21:52

It is about clarifying the circumstances surrounding the non-consensual kiss that the manager gave the world champion on the lips. Jenni Hermoso at the end of the championship in Austrialia and the possible subsequent pressures on the player.

Those mentioned, as mentioned The Spanish and legal sources confirm to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group, they are Ruben Riveradirector de Marketing; Patricia Perezpress officer of the women’s team; Miguel García Caba, Director of Integrity; and Albert Luke, football director of the men’s team. All of them have been summoned by the head of the Central Court of Investigation without the Prosecutor’s Office having requested it.

The date on which the four RFEF employees must go to testify before the judge of the National Court has not yet been announced, although the summons will be communicated to those affected in the coming days. Some of the names now mentioned appeared during the interrogation of Rubiales by the prosecutor handling the case, Marta Durántez.

Mechanics of coercion

As published Europa Pressthe Public Ministry was trying to find out if people close to Rubiales, including the former women’s team coach Jorge Vilda and the aforementioned Luque and Rivera, had tried to coerce the player after the forced kiss.

After the interrogation, the instructor agreed at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office that Rubiales cannot communicate with the player during the investigation of the open case, also prohibiting him from approaching her within 200 meters. The former manager had denied before the judge that there was coercion towards the senior player and her entourage, as well as that there was a lack of consent in the kiss on the mouth that he gave her.

Regarding the witnesses, Rivera, García Caba and Luque are people who belonged to the Rubiales hard core in the RFEF. The last of them, a former international international, was promoted to football director after José Francisco Molina, former sports director, decided to resign after the World Cup in Qatar. García Caba, for his part, was defenestrated at the RFEF until he made an appointment with Javier Tebas and provided the audio of the meeting to Rubiales himself.