Spanish prosecutors have begun an investigation into whether Luis Rubiales’s kiss of a female player constitutes sexual assault.
to Spain’s EFE news agency, Ángeles Béjar locked herself inside a church in Rubiales’s hometown of Motril, Spain, to protest the “inhuman, bloodthirsty witch hunt which my son is being subjected to.
”“There is no sexual abuse since there is consent on both sides, as the images prove,”In a statement Friday, Hermoso said “at no time did I consent to the kiss he gave me,” adding that she and her family had come under pressure to publicly support Rubiales.
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