MADRID, 28 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The press manager of the Women’s Soccer Team, Patricia Pérez, and the soccer player’s brother Jennifer Hermoso have provided the judge of the National Court investigating the ‘Rubiales case’ with the information and data contained in their respective mobile phones.
Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that both Pérez and Rafael Hermoso have dumped their devices at the courthouse. The press officer did so at the end of his testimony as a witness before the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 1, Francisco de Jorge.
The footballer’s brother, for his part, went to the National Court this Thursday to provide the information contained in his phone despite the fact that he already testified last Monday before the instructor as a witness. Then, he assured that the now former coach of the Women’s National Team Jorge Vilda pressured him for the kiss given by the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales to his sister.
The magistrate also took the former RFEF Integrity Director Miguel García Caba as a witness this Thursday. Prosecutor’s sources have explained that the dumping of his phone was not necessary for the investigation of the facts.
This same week, the magistrate has received through the Australian Embassy the certificate of the content of all the crimes of the Penal Code of that country in relation to the facts investigated and that are applicable in the State of New South Wales.
It should be remembered that the instructor will take a statement on October 2 as witnesses from the National Team players Alexia Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez. In addition, on the 10th, Vilda and the directors of the Men’s National Team, Albert Luque, and of RFEF Marketing, Rubén Rivera, will be questioned as investigated.
The lieutenant prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Durántez, asked Rubiales about five people during the interrogation before the judge held within the framework of the case being followed for alleged crimes of coercion and sexual assault.
The sources consulted then explained that the Public Ministry tried to find out if those five people, including Vilda and the aforementioned Luque and Rivera, had tried to coerce the player after the forced kiss.
After the interrogation, the instructor agreed at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office that Rubiales could not communicate with the player during the investigation of the open case, also prohibiting him from approaching her within 200 meters.
According to tax sources, Rubiales 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. The former president of the Federation answered questions from all parties during the nearly 45 minutes that his statement as an investigator lasted.
It was last September 12 when the judge summoned Rubiales. At that time, 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.
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’.
