Spanish prosecutors seek jail term for Luis Rubiales for Hermoso kiss | Football News

Prosecutors need Rubiales to face a yr behind bars for the kiss and 18 months for the cost of coercion.

Spanish prosecutors are searching for a two-and-a-half yr jail time period for disgraced ex-football chief Luis Rubiales who’s facing trial for kissing Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips towards her will, courtroom paperwork present.

Prosecutors additionally need Rubiales, who has been charged with sexual assault and coercion, to pay no less than 50,000 euros ($54,000) in compensation to Hermoso, they wrote in a doc despatched to Spain’s Audiencia Nacional courtroom, Spanish media reported on Wednesday.

Throughout the incident, which befell on August 20 after Spain beat England to win the Girls’s World Cup last in Australia, Rubiales held Hermoso’s head in each arms and forcibly kissed her on the lips.

The kiss befell dwell in entrance of the world’s cameras, scary widespread outrage and prompting his suspension by world soccer governing physique FIFA.

On the time, Rubiales brushed it off as a “consensual” peck on the lips, however Hermoso, 33, stated it was not.

Beneath Spanish legislation, a nonconsensual kiss could be classed as sexual assault – a felony class that teams all kinds of sexual violence.

Rubiales “grabbed the participant’s head with each arms, and surprisingly and with out consent or the participant’s acceptance, he kissed her on the lips”, the prosecutors wrote.

After realising the kiss might have “private {and professional} penalties” together with his suspension by FIFA on August 26, Rubiales and his entourage started to exert “fixed strain” on Hermoso in order that she “publicly justify” the kiss as consensual.

The strain prompted her “nervousness and intense stress” for a number of months, they wrote.

Prosecutors requested that the 46-year-old face a yr behind bars for the kiss, and 18 months for the cost of coercion.

Three of his former associates are additionally being tried for placing strain on Hermoso: former ladies’s coach Jorge Vilda, males’s staff director Albert Luque and Ruben Rivera, advertising and marketing boss on the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF).

Hermoso filed a lawsuit towards Rubiales in September, telling the choose she had come below strain to defend him each on the flight again from Australia and on a subsequent staff vacation to Ibiza within the Balearic Islands.

As well as, she requested a restraining order barring Rubiales from coming inside 200 metres (656 ft) of Hermoso and from speaking together with her for the following seven-and-a-half years.

If convicted and sentenced as requested by the prosecutor, Rubiales wouldn’t essentially should go to jail. Spain’s felony code permits judges to “exceptionally” droop jail phrases if – as on this case – not one of the sentences imposed individually exceeds two years.

Rubiales has been named in a separate corruption probe that shook the RFEF final week, when police searched the federation’s headquarters and an house belonging to Rubiales, arresting seven individuals.

A Spanish courtroom has been investigating since June 2022 if Rubiales dedicated a criminal offense of improper administration when the RFEF agreed with former Barcelona participant Gerard Pique’s Kosmos agency to maneuver the Spanish Tremendous Cup to Saudi Arabia, a judicial supply informed the Reuters information company then.

Rubiales, who was within the Dominican Republic throughout final week’s searches, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and informed El Espanol newspaper he would cooperate with the investigation.

A courtroom supply stated his attorneys informed the choose he would return from the Dominican Republic on April 6.