The statement of the former president of Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales before a judge for alleged sexual assault Jenni Hermoso It was surrounded by great media anticipation, with around a hundred journalists stationed in front of the National Court, and a strong security apparatus.
About a hundred professionals – about 30 television cameras and several dozen journalists – are waiting for the arrival of Rubiales, scheduled for 12:00 this Friday, to testify as being investigated for the kiss on the mouth that he gave to Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final won by the women’s soccer team in Sydney, on August 20.
A statement that is already surrounded by great media expectations, based on the interest shown by “media from around the world”, which contacted the press office of National audienceas legal sources explain to EFE.
The court building is guarded from dawn by a strong security apparatus: the perimeter of the judicial body is accessible after presenting the appropriate accreditation and journalists are waiting in the area designated for it.
Rubiales going to Audience with his lawyer, Olga Tubauknown for defending the former mayor of Mossos d’Esquadra Josep Lluís Trapero also to the National Court for the police operation on October 1, 2017, the day of the illegal referendum in Catalonia.
The Prosecutor’s Office He believed that he could have committed a crime of sexual assault by giving Hermoso a non-consensual kiss while holding his head with both hands, according to his own statement; and another on the coercion due to the pressure reported by the soccer player that he suffered from his superior and his professional environment to give him a public justification of what happened.
The former president of RFEF, who has maintained all along that the kiss was consensual, will again give his version of events this Friday before a National Court judge Francisco de Jorge, which is already collecting all the videos of what happened, “from all angles”, from the moments before and after the celebration.
Source: La Verdad
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