Guide to understand the case

The former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales He sits from this Monday on the bench, accused of sexual assault and coercion for the kiss he gave to the player Beautiful Jenni During the award of the World Cup in Sydney, Australia, on August 20, 2023 and that she assures that He did not consent.

At the National Court, before the Central Criminal Court, Rubiales faces a request for Two and a half years in jail and will share the bank of the defendants with three people of their trust during their management in the Federation: the former sports leader of the male team Albert Luquethe former Women Jorge wild And the former marketing manager of the RFEF Rubén Rivera.

Luis Rubiales’ performance for the kiss that Jenni claims not to have consented and in her ways in the box, where the genitals touched as a celebration for victory, triggered a wave of indignation driven by the #Seacabó movement and, to The days, his departure from the RFEF after five years of driving.

After denouncing Jenni Hermoso who did not consent to that kiss of Rubiales, the prosecution took the facts to the National Court and, after almost eight months of investigation and many interrogations, the judge concluded that there were “Solid indications” to affirm that, indeed, that kiss “was not consented and was a unilateral and surprising initiative” of the former federative president.

The events happened on August 20, at the New Wales of the South Stadium (Australia). After the victory of the women’s team in the World Cup final, when Jenni Hermos Conclusions.

The trial will try to determine if Rubiales incurred it in a crime of sexual assault and another of coercionin this case for the pressures to which he and the other defendants would have submitted to the player so that “It will justify and approve” The kiss he gave “Against your will”.

The Prosecutor’s Office recounts in its brief the “harassment situation” to which she underwent the player, with pressures that arrived in her family and which also holds the other defendants, “people of trust” of Rubiales, whose ” privileged situation in the RFEF “depended on the” luck “that he ran.

Since the investigation began, the four defendants have unmarked any criminal conduct, a defense strategy that will continue in the trial.

In his defense brief, Rubiales maintains that Jenni Hermoso gave her “consent” and justified the kiss as “A manifestation of euphoria, of maximum joy and satisfaction”while denying to have coerced or asked the rest of the defendants to mediate with her or her family.

Also Vilda, Luque and Rivera denied the judge to have pressed the player or his family. Everyone will declare at the end of the trial.

The accusations – the Prosecutor’s Office, the player and the Association of Spanish footballers – ask for two and a half years of jail for Rubiales and many other disqualification to work in the sports field, in addition to the payment of compensation of 50,000 euros, among other measures; and for the rest they request a year and a half in prison.

Jenni Hermoso also asks that Rubiales are prohibited from approaching her less than 500 meters or communicating with her for eight years.

The objective of the accusations in the trial will be to demonstrate that this kiss from the then president of the RFEF to a subordinated was an aggression, with consent or without it.

Also that what happened later, since they went up to the plane back to Spain to the trip to Ibiza that the players enjoyed to win the World Cup, resulted in a permanent harassment of the footballer to have denied having felt attacked.

The trial will begin, as usual, with the previous issues. After, It will be Jenni beautiful the first to declare And, after her, more than one twenty witnesses They will parade for the National Court to give their version about what happened.

Among them are four beautiful Jenni companions in the selection –Alexia Putellas, Laia Codina, Irene Paredes y Mass Rodríguez-; Your coach Montse I took; and other current and past positions of the Federation, including the coach Luis de la Fuentejust renewed at the head of the male set.

They will also testify, at the request of Rubiales, their two daughters, who came to that final and traveled on the plane back with the players.

The around a hundred proven information professionals, including journalists and technicians, of about 70 media and producers, accounts for the level of expectation of a trial that revolves around facts that went around the world and overflowed widely the sports field.

According to sources from the National Court, fifteen of those 70 media are internationalfrom countries such as Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico or Colombia.

The trial is scheduled between February 3 and 19 in the municipality of San Fernando de Henares, where the National Court has a larger headquarters designed for macrojacies with many parts personally.