On Thursday, the conviction of the former Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales for sexual abuse made worldwide headlines, after he had been guilty after he had kissed Jenni Hermoso without her permission during the celebrations of the World Cup 2023. There were mixed reactions On the verdict.
Rubiales was convicted of sexual abuse, fined € 10.8k and received a 200m restrictive order against Hermoso for the following year, but he avoided the 2.5-year prison sentence that the persecution was looking for. This included a prison sentence of 1.5 years for Cerceion, to which Rubiales was released, just like former manager Jorge Vilda, former marketing director Ruben Rivera, and former sports director Albert Luque at the RFEF.
For his part, Rubiales said that he would continue to fight ', which would have intiments that a profession came against the punishment from his end. According to Cadena Cope, Hermoso discovered the verdict in Mexico, and the verdict was positively received by the football player and her camp, and considered it a step forward for women believed to her and Rubiales was convicted.
Nevertheless, they expected that the compulsive costs would also be successful and follow the punishment. Relo reports that, like Rubiales, both the Hermoso camp and the AFE (Association of Spanish football players) appeal against the punishment on the forced applications that they thought it had been proven.
In the meantime, the judgment at RFEF's head office on the RFEF headquarters discovered and one of the close allies of Hermoso, Irene Paredes would give a press conference.
“The conviction for sexual violence seems correct to me. What seems striking to me is that there is no condemnation for coercion. It is a kind of feeling of the whole dressing room. That is the summary of the feeling of the dressing room. What are we going to say? We rely on the legal system, “she told Cadena Ser.
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