2023-10-24 00:18:45
Updated Tuesday, October 24, 2023 – 00:18
He also agrees to question a witness to the conversation between Vilda and Hermoso’s brother on the plane.
Jenni Hermoso this Monday in a training session at the Soccer City of Las Rozas. Marketing Director of the Federation
The judge of the National Court who instructs the ‘Rubiales case’ has accepted the request for legal representation of the Spanish national team player Jenni Hermoso and has agreed that a confrontation be held between Ana Belén Ecube, Hermoso’s friend who testified as a witness, and the marketing director of the RFEF, Ruben Rivera, who appeared under investigation for possible coercion of the player.
In addition, he has also accepted the request for a new appearance requested by this same party and will take a statement from a witness who witnessed the conversation held between the former coach Jorge Vilda and the player’s brother Rafael Hermoso on the plane back to Spain from Australia after the World Cup. This new testimonial will take place on November 16, according to ABC and Europa Press has been able to confirm it from legal sources.
The confrontation, however, will come later, The 30th of November. It will be then that both of them, and in the presence of the judge who is investigating the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales for the kiss he gave him when the World Cup trophies were presented to Hermoso, must confront their versions of the alleged coercion from Rubiales’ environment to the player’s environment.
In Hermoso’s letter, to which this news agency had access, Hermoso’s lawyer addressed the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1, Francisco de Jorge, to request the practice of this diligence considering it “adequate and pertinent because this party has observed the discrepancy between the statements of both.”
He added that these statements made during the investigation were “of notable importance in determining the guilt of the person under investigation” since there were no “other feasible means of proof for their investigation.”
THE CONVERSATION OF RIVERA AND ECUBE IN IBIZA
It is worth remembering that Ana Belén Ecube He went to testify at the National Court on September 25, the same day that the senior player’s brother did so. Then, and according to legal sources consulted by Europa Press, he supported Hermoso’s testimony before the magistrate, in which he indicated that the kiss was not consensual and that there was coercion behind it.
For its part, Ruben Rivera He testified before the judge as a defendant on October 10, when he denied that he participated in the coercion that is being investigated. Rivera, who moved to Ibiza – where the players celebrated winning the World Cup – would have explained that his job was to convey the information from the RFEF to the footballers themselves. In his words, His presence on the island was that of a kind of qualified messenger.
Along these lines, Rivera maintained that she was there to help everyone, carrying out tasks such as purchasing bikinis, summer clothes or tickets to clubs. Besideshas denied that he spoke with Rubiales or that he gave him any type of indication. He did admit that he approached Hermoso only to warn him that they had called him and to keep an eye on the phone.
Rivera also explained that she spoke with a friend of the player about logistical issues – with Ecube -. In that conversation he also tried to convince her friend so that Hermoso agreed to speak with the director of the National Team, Albert Luke, a conversation that never materialized.
VILDA’S CONVERSATION
Regarding the testimony of the person who, according to Hermoso’s legal representation, “witnessed and was in the conversation between the investigated person –Vilda– and Rafael Hermoso on the return plane,” Victoriano Martín Llovert, It will serve to shed light and contrast the statements made before the judge by both the former national coach and the player’s brother.
It should be remembered that Rafael Hermoso’s statement only revealed that he supported his sister’s version that the kiss on Rubiales’ mouth to Jenni Hermoso was not consensual.
From Jorge Vilda’s statement as a defendant, it emerged that he denied before the judge that he coerced the soccer player’s entourage and that he received instructions to do so or that he put pressure on the player’s brother, although he did. He admitted that he approached him to talk to him on the plane. back from the World Cup itself.
The now former women’s coach assured that although he did not witness the incident – the kiss – he did notice a change of atmosphere from the field to the plane, where the situation became more difficult. That fact, added to the affection she has for the player, would have been the reason why she would have decided to approach Hermoso’s brother, she explained.
Vilda added that what she told the soccer player’s relative was that perhaps the best thing would be for Jenni herself to go out in public to tell her own version of what happened to try to “lower the soufflé.”
It should be remembered that in this case, former president Rubiales is being investigated for an alleged crime of sexual assault and for possible subsequent coercion of the player and her environment.
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