Jenni Hermoso declares in the trial against Luis Rubiales: "I was kissing my boss and this does not happen

A kiss on a boss’s mouth “It should not happen in any social or labor field,” The player Jenni Hermoso said Monday at the trial of the former leadership of Spanish football Luis Rubiales for the kiss that imposed her against her will in the World Cup final.

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“I felt that I was out of context totally (…) I was kissing my boss and this does not happen, It should not happen in any social or labor field “said beautiful, first witness to the trial to the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) that began on Monday.

“As a woman I felt little respected,” He pointed out Hermoso, who declared in a quiet voice for more than two hours in the court located in San Fernando de Henares, on the outskirts of Madrid.

Rubiales, in a dark suit and sitting with his lawyer, is accused of sexual aggression for the kiss and coercion so that the footballer apologizes the gesture, crimes for which the Prosecutor’s Office requests 2.5 years in prison.

Hermos explained that she never stood up to think that a kiss on the lips was her normal way to greet or celebrate anything. “A kiss on the lips, [lo doy] Only when I decide to do it, “the player told the prosecutor.

“They stained one of the happiest days of my life, and for me it is very important to say that at no time I looked for that act, much less I expected it,” he added.

“Let me leave me alone”

The scandal broke out in the eyes of the entire world on August 23, 2023, when the players of the Spanish women’s team, having won the World Cup in Sydney, They reached the podium for the medals.

When congratulating beautiful, number 10, Rubiales grabbed his head with both hands and planted a kiss on his lips.

The gesture went viral in networks and generated indignation reactions worldwide, but Rubiales clung to the position despite a suspension of FIFA and the multiplication of the calls to resign, even from the Government of Spain.

Finally, he resigned in September 2023.

The former director of the Women’s Red, Jorge Vilda, and two former RFEF, Rubén Rivera and Albert Luque, are also prosecuted for the coercion to Hermos, a crime for which the Prosecutor’s Office asks for for them a year and a half in jail.

Beautiful explained that he ended up fed up with “countless” times that they asked him to make a statement or a video to justify the facts, until he asked to leave it “In peace, because it is already one after another, and that I can’t take it anymore.”

Asked by lawyers of the defendants why he continued celebrating the victory in the World Cup after the kiss, he said: “My attitude (…) does not take away what I feel and (…) I do not even have to be crying in a room nor have I thrown to the ground when the event passed to imply that I did not like it. “

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A life in “stand by” since then

“I felt unprotected” by the Federation, he added beautiful, who said he “fear of going down the street” Upon returning to Spain, but found refuge in Mexico, where he played in Pachuca.

“There in Mexico, being so far, I found a way to protect myself more,” he said.

Even so, and “until today, my life seems to have been in ‘Stand by’ “In this case, he added.

Rubiales has always described the gesture after the Sydney final as “a piquito”-a kiss on the lips-between friends but, for the Prosecutor’s Office, he imposed it “in a surprising way and without consent or acceptance of the player.”

“Not a little more consented kiss, or more sexual assault,” He wrote on Monday in X the Minister of Equality of the leftist government, Ana Redondo, who thanked the “courage” of beautiful.

The trial will be extended until February 19 and include the testimony of several companions who support the attacker of the National Team, including the double Golden Ball Alexia Putellas; RFEF executives, the male and female coach of Spain and experts.

Rubiales, 47, will declare as of February 12.

Rubiales is also judicially investigated for alleged corruption and irregular contracts during its presidency of the RFEF since 2018.