MADRID, Sept 11 — A judge at Spain’s top criminal court opened an investigation into former Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales on Monday, following a lawsuit...
MADRID, Sept 11 — A judge at Spain’s top criminal court opened an investigation into former Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales on Monday, following a lawsuit filed over his forcible kiss on Jenni Hermoso’s lips after the Women’s World Cup final.
The magistrate also asked media outlets to send him footage from different angles of Rubiales’ kiss, as well as the Spain players’ celebrations in the dressing room and on the team bus after winning the World Cup on August 20 in Sydney. Since a recent reform of the Spanish penal code, a non-consensual kiss can be considered sexual assault, a criminal category that groups together all types of sexual violence.
De Jorge’s decision came the day after Rubiales announced his resignation as Spain’s RFEF football federation president, after initially refusing to do so claiming that the kiss had been “consensual”.“I have faith in the truth and I will do everything in my power so that it prevails,” Rubiales wrote.
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