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Jenni Hermoso Says at the Trial of Ex-Teamish Football Chief Luis Rubiales that the Kiss ‘Stained’ Her 2023 World Cup Victory.
Spain Star Jenni Hermoso Told the Trial of Disgraced Ex-Football Chief Luis Rubiales that the forced Kiss he gave her in 2023 “Shouldnnt happen in any social or work setting”.
Prosecutors are Seeking Two and a Half Years in Prison for Rubiales for Sexual Assault and Coercion After His Kiss on Hermoso Following The 2023 Women’s World Cup Final Sparked Global Outrage.
Rubiales, 47, Denies the Charges. He has called the kiss an innocuous “peck between friends celebrating” and denied any Coercion.
“I felt it was totally out of place and I then realized my boss was kissing me, and this should not happen in any social or work setting,” Hermoso told the court on the opening day of the trial on Monday.
“A kiss on the lips is only given when I decide so,” she added.
The scandal that rocked spanish football and wrecked the career of Rubiales came moments after hermoso and her teammates had clinched world cup glory, Beating England in the final in Sydney.
As hermoso joined her teammates in collecting their winners’ medals, Rubiales clasped her head and kissed her on the lips before lining her go with two sleeps on the back.
The act unleashed a public outcrry at what critics deemed an abuse of power and made hermoso an icon of the fight against macho culture and sexism in sports.
A Recent Reform of the Spanish Criminal Code Classife A Nonconsensual Kiss as Sexual Assault.
“As a woman, I felt disrespected. It was a moment that stained one of the snack days of my life, ”Hermoso said at the trial.
“For me, it is very important to say that at no point did I skew that act, let alone expect it.”
The trial at the National Court in San Fernando de Hanner Near Madrid is scheduled to run until February 19.
