Luis Rubiales and Jennifer Hermoso. (Twitter)
The trial shall be held on the Audiencia Nacional, a Madrid court docket answerable for complicated instances, on a date but to be set, stated Choose Francisco de Jorge within the court docket doc.
Disgraced former Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial for his forcible kiss on the lips of Ladies’s World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, a Spanish excessive court docket decide determined Wednesday.
“(Rubiales shall be tried) for the non-consensual kissing of Spanish nationwide crew participant Jennifer Hermoso on the finish of the World Cup remaining in Sydney on August 20 (2023), and for the following coercion exerted to make her say publicly that it was consensual,” the court docket stated in an announcement outlining the allegations.
The trial shall be held on the Audiencia Nacional, a Madrid court docket answerable for complicated instances, on a date but to be set, stated Choose Francisco de Jorge within the court docket doc.
Public prosecution has requested a sentence of two-and-a-half years in jail for Luis Rubiales — one yr for sexual assault and 18 months for coercion.
The prosecution can be asking for 2 years’ probation as soon as the sentence has been served and for him to pay 50,000 euros ($54,000) in compensation to the participant.
Choose De Jorge requested Luis Rubiales to put up bail of 65,000 euros ($70,000) inside 24 hours to cowl “any civil liabilities he could also be ordered to pay”.
The decide additionally confirmed that former La Roja girls’s coach Jorge Vilda and two former federation officers would additionally face trial for alleged coercion of Hermoso.
Rubiales, 46, provoked worldwide outrage by giving Hermoso an unsolicited kiss in the course of the medal ceremony after Spain beat England to win the World Cup in Australia final yr.
The previous RFEF chief, additionally below investigation in a separate alleged corruption case involving his reign on the federation, has denied any wrongdoing.
