“He took my head with this decision that he did not let me react. It was a thousandth of a second and I was not able to remove it. At that moment I had the perception that that was a totally out of place gesture: it was my boss who was kissing me. This should never happen, in any social or professional sphere. As a woman I did not feel respected, that moment stained one of the happiest days of my life and it is important to say that I absolutely did not look for that gesture and nor did I expect it. “
Scandal at the World Women, the president of the Spanish Football Federation kisses player on the mouth
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Beautiful Jenni34 years old, Spanish footballer, thus reports on the first day of the trial to the former president of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales47 years old, who opened today in front of the Audiencia Nacional di San Fernando de Henaresnear Madrid.
The case of the stolen kiss
The case is that of the kiss imposed in Hermoso, then in the Iberian national team, during the award ceremony for the victory of the World Cup in 2023 a Sydney. A kiss, who, according to the player now in force in the Mexican team of the Tigres and the Iberian national team, Roja, was not consensual as the Audiencia Nacional also decreed in the act of indictment explaining that it was given “by surprise And without the consent and acceptance “by the player.
Accuse him
Towards Rubiales, whose deposition is expected on February 12th while the trial will close on the 19th, the accusation is not only that of sexual aggression but also of intimidation for pressure on the player and his staff so that the scandal was covered . With him, for intimidation, they are charged Jorge wildthe then coach of the women’s national team, Ruben Riveradirector of the federation marketing e Albert Luquesports director of the team: for them the prosecutor asks for convictions to 1 year and a half in prison and 100,000 euros of damages; For Rubiales, present in the classroom with the other defendants, the accusation request is two and a half years in prison.
Jenni Hermoso, the footballer at the trial: “I was unable to defend myself from the kiss of Rubiales”
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Rubiales’ defense: “Kiss with friends”
After the case of 2023, the then president of the Federalcio then forced to resign, he repeatedly defended his gesture calling him “a celebratory kiss between two friends”, insisting on the fact that the player was consenting and denying that he had put pressure later . In the classroom yesterday the attacker recalled the countless requests made by officials of the Federation to silence her and how it felt abandoned by that world that should have defended her.
Sexism in football
Since then the name of Hermoso, associated with the hashtag and the #Seacabò movement, has brought hundreds of women to Spain to the square and made around the world making it become a champion of the fight against sexism in the world of football.
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Accused at home, however, of having been exploited by some feminist policies that would have pushed her to sue, on social media a short video is often relaunched in which, immediately after the kiss, the player shows the smiling photo.
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To the allusive questions of Rubiales’ lawyer, Hermoso replied: “The way I show me, does not change what I feel. I don’t have to lock myself crying in a room to make it clear that I don’t like it. “
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