He rejects that he has to appear in court every 15 days and that his assets are seized
The judge of the National Court (AN) Francisco de Jorge has agreed this Friday that the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales cannot communicate with the player of the Spanish soccer team Jenni Hermoso during the investigation of the case opened and prohibits him from approaching her within 200 meters.
In an order issued after the declaration as investigated for the crimes of sexual assault and coercion of Rubiales, which the AN has reported through a statement, the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1 partially follows the criteria of the lieutenant prosecutor, Marta Durántez, but rejects her request for biweekly appearances in court. He also ignores the request of the player’s lawyer, who is prosecuting the private prosecution, to preventively seize the assets of the former president of the Federation.
According to tax sources, Rubiales has denied before the judge that there was coercion towards the senior player and her entourage, as well as that there was a lack of consent in the kiss on the mouth that he gave her at the World Cup trophy presentation in Sydney ( Australia). The former president of the Federation answered questions from all parties during the nearly 45 minutes that his statement as an investigator lasted.
Although the restraining order finally agreed upon is 200 meters, the Prosecutor’s Office had requested that he be prohibited from approaching less than 500 meters from Hermoso in addition to not being able to communicate with her. The Public Ministry had also requested that De Jorge have Rubiales appear every fifteen days at the judicial headquarters closest to his home.
About 45 minutes before the summons, Rubiales went to court walking with his lawyer, the lawyer Olga Tubau – known for having been the lawyer of the Mossos d’Esquadra major Josep Lluís Trapero in the ‘procés’ trial. –. Together they walked down the hallway to the entrance of the AN, where around a hundred journalists were waiting. However, he has refused to answer questions from the media both at the entrance and at the exit.
The one who has spoken to the media has been Hermoso’s lawyer, Carla Vall, who has assured that the soccer player “is affected by the events, by the humiliating act that she experienced in the stadium and that has also tarnished a sporting milestone.” “Therefore we would also appreciate that the treatment is adequate to emotionally sustain this process as well,” she requested.
When asked by journalists, Vall pointed out that the foundations have been laid “to strengthen” what they have maintained “from the beginning.” “We can maintain what we have said from the beginning: that it was a non-consensual kiss,” she stressed.
Along these lines, the lawyer has insisted that “everyone saw the images.” “The whole country saw it, and we can say precisely that thanks to it, thanks to the social change and the legal change in some way we can maintain that there was a complete lack of consent on the part of Mr. Rubiales,” he added and then warned that there was no He knows when Hermoso will testify before the judge.
THE SUMMONS OF RUBIALES
It was this same week when the judge summoned Rubiales. On Monday, the magistrate admitted the complaint filed by the Prosecutor’s Office for the crimes of sexual assault and coercion against him for the kiss on the mouth that he gave Hermoso.
In an order, collected by Europa Press, the magistrate agreed to the first steps in this procedure, including obtaining from ‘RTVE’ the video or videos that they have in their files that record the moment from all angles in which the defendant kisses the complainant, as well as the minutes immediately before and after the event related to the celebration of the victory of the women’s soccer team.
In addition, he asked the newspaper ‘El País’ for the video of the celebration in the locker room that is posted on the Internet and the newspaper ‘AS’ for the video of the moments of the kiss and any others related to the events. For his part, the instructor requested a video of the celebration on the Spanish women’s soccer team bus from the newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’.
