Spanish prosecutors are in search of two-and-a-half years jail for disgraced ex-football chief Luis Rubiales who’s going through trial for kissing Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips in opposition to her will, court docket paperwork confirmed Wednesday.
Prosecutors additionally need Rubiales, who has been charged with sexual assault and coercion, to pay a minimum of 50,000 euros ($54,000) in compensation to Hermoso, they wrote in a doc despatched to Spain’s Audiencia Nacional court docket, a duplicate of which was seen by AFP.
During the incident, which happened on August 20 after Spain beat England to win the Women’s World Cup ultimate in Australia, Rubiales held Hermoso’s head in each arms and forcibly kissed her on the lips.
The kiss happened reside in entrance of the world’s cameras, scary widespread outrage and prompting his suspension by world soccer governing physique FIFA.
At the time, Rubiales brushed it off as “a consensual” peck on the lips, however Hermoso, 33, mentioned it was not.
Under Spanish legislation, a non-consensual kiss may be classed as sexual assault — a legal class that teams all varieties of sexual violence.
Rubiales “grabbed the player’s head with both hands, and surprisingly and without consent or the player’s acceptance, he kissed her on the lips,” they wrote.
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After realising the kiss might have “personal and professional consequences” together with his suspension by FIFA on August 26, Rubiales and his entourage started to exert “constant pressure” on Hermoso in order that she “publicly justify” the kiss as consensual.
The stress brought about her “anxiety and intense stress” for a number of months, they wrote.
Prosecutors requested that the 46-year-old face a 12 months behind bars for the kiss, and 18 months jail for the cost of coercion.
Three of his former associates are additionally being tried for placing stress on Hermoso: former ladies’s coach Jorge Vilda, males’s staff director Albert Luque and RFEF advertising boss Ruben Rivera.
In phrases of compensation, prosecutors need Rubiales to pay Hermoso 50,000 euros for the kiss and have mentioned that he and the three different defendants collectively pay her 50,000 euros for the coercion cost.
It was not instantly clear whether or not the quantity could be evenly break up.
Hermoso filed a lawsuit in opposition to Rubiales in September, telling the decide she had come below stress to defend him each on the flight again from Australia and on a subsequent staff vacation to Ibiza within the Balearic Islands.
