Marketing Director of RFEF Presents WhatsApp Messages as Defense in Rubiales Case

The Marketing Director of the Real Football Federation (RFEF), Ruben Rivera, contributed last Friday to the National audience dozens of WhatsApp messages with several players from the women’s team.

Rivera has made this decision within the framework of the Rubiales casein which Justice investigates the alleged sexual assault committed by the former president of the RFEF, Luis Rubialesagainst the soccer player Jenni Hermoso.

The alleged coercion denounced by Hermoso is also being investigated, who assured that senior RFEF officials close to Rubiales pressured her to downplay the importance of the kiss.

[La declaración de Jenni Hermoso ante la Fiscalía: “En ningún momento el beso fue consentido”]

Precisely, Rivera, as part of his defense strategy, has presented these wasaps to deny that he coerced Hermoso.

The messages, according to legal sources transferred to EL ESPAÑOL, include conversations between Rivera and several players—among them, Jenni Hermoso—while they were enjoying a vacation in Ibiza after winning the Women’s Soccer World Cup.

The kiss on the mouth that Rubiales gave to Jenni Hermoso occurred during the medal ceremony after the final match, Spain-England.

[Luis Rubiales, al juez sobre su beso a Jenni Hermoso: “Ella se fue muerta de risa y dándome dos cachetes”]

Rivera testifies this Tuesday before the Central Court of Instruction number 1 of the National Court, where he will foreseeably be interrogated for these alleged coercion, which he denies. This crime is what he is accused of. And he will rely on WhatsApp messages, already provided to Justice, to defend his position.

Rivera was initially summoned as a witness, but the investigating judge of the Rubiales caseFrancisco de Jorge, changed his status to under investigation and summoned him for this Tuesday.

Luis Rubiales also declared himself under investigation in this case—in his case, for the crimes of sexual assault and coercion attributed to him by the Prosecutor’s Office. And, as he had already stated publicly, the former president of the RFEF maintained that the kiss was consented to and verbally accepted by the player.

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