2023-11-24 16:04:43
The judge of the National Court Francisco de Jorge, who is investigating the case for the kiss of the former president of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales to the player Jenni Hermoso, has transferred to the next January 2 The soccer player’s statement was initially scheduled for next Tuesday, the day on which she will be concentrated with her teammates from the women’s team. On the other hand, the Criminal Chamber has rejected the appeal presented by the former director to force the head of the Central Investigative Court number 1 to accept certain evidentiary measures.
Among these proceedings, requested by the defense exercised by the lawyer Olga Tubau, was the incorporation of a recording of the locker room tunnel in the moments following the presentation of medals from the last world championship.
They are investigated alleged crimes of sexual assault and coercion after giving Rubiales a kiss according to the player that was not consented after the women’s team’s victory in Sydney last August. In addition to Rubiales, the former coach of the Spanish women’s soccer team, Jorge Vilda, the director of the men’s team, are accused, in this case only for the second of the crimes. Albert Lukeand the marketing director, Ruben Rivera in relation to the pressures that the player may have suffered, aimed at making the matter less ironic and in relation to an official statement from the Federation in which statements appeared that she never made.
In an order, the Chamber rejects Rubiales’ appeal and endorses the judge’s decision. Explains that the appellant may incorporate the aforementioned recordings as documentary evidence it is deemed appropriate andn case this case goes to trial.
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In his appeal, Rubiales’ defense defended that this recording “allowed us to know not only the words spoken” by the former president “in relation to the event shortly after it occurred, but also check the reactions that they could have provoked in Hermoso and the rest of the players.” He also added that this procedure was directly related to “the coercion supposedly suffered” by Hermoso, according to the document to which he had access. Europa Press. “Is a useful and necessary diligence for the defense of our client. “We could be facing decisive evidence regarding the contradictory versions of the investigated and the complainant,” he pointed out.
Regarding Hermoso’s in-person statement, andThe change of the summons has been requested by Luis Rubiales’ lawyer and by the lawyer of the also accused Rubén Rivera, marketing director of the Federation, due to scheduling problems. Likewise, the head of the Central Court of Instruction 1 has indicated for the day December 1stat 10 a.m., the player’s witness statement Laia Codina.
Hermoso has not testified before the judge, but he did answer the questions of the prosecutor of the case, Marta Durántez, before proceedings were initiated. Then, the player defended that she did not feel respected. “They were subjecting me to something that I never sought. nor did I do anything to find myself in that situation,” he revealed.
In the statement before the Prosecutor’s Office, revealed by Telecinco, the soccer player narrated the moment she received the kiss after Spain won the Women’s World Cup. According to her story, she hugged Rubiales and stated: “The one we’ve messed up”. Afterwards, the former president of the RFEF jumped on her and commented: “We won this World Cup thanks to you.”
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“The next thing was his hands on my head and then I didn’t hear anything else. I saw myself with the kiss on the mouth and I immediately went down to the stage with my teammates,” Hermoso recalled when asked by the prosecutor. “I didn’t even expect it,” the athlete added in her story in the Prosecutor’s Office.
Before the judge, Rubiales defended a diametrically opposite version. He said the kiss was a “display of affection” that occurred “naturally,” in the light of “millions of eyes” and that it was “with consent.” When asked by Hermoso’s lawyer, he asserted that it was a “totally extraordinary celebration”, that he asked the player before giving her the kiss and that it occurred “with consent.”. “If I asked him before, how can I not respect him?” responded to the question of whether he considered that he had respected the player by kissing her on the mouth, and then pointed out that Hermoso after that episode “left dying of laughter” and giving him “two slaps on the side.”
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