Madrid.- Jenni beautiful will also appeal the sentence that condemned a fine to Luis Rubiales For the kiss on the unseeled mouth that imposed the player during the celebration of the 2023 World Cup, which already said that the former head of Spanish football would do.
The sentence issued Thursday by the judge who prosecuted Rubiales from February 3 to 14 found the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) guilty of sexual assault, so he imposed a fine of 10,800 euros (11,300 dollars) and prohibition of approaching or contacting the victim for a year.
The magistrate acquitted him, however, the crime of coercion, not finding that there were violence or intimidation in the pressures on the attacker of the women’s team to minimize the gesture.
“It is his intention” to resort to the sentence, the lawyer of Hermoso, Ángel Chavarría told AFP.
Rubiales’ defense had already said Thursday that he was also disagreeing and the decision would resort to.
The penalty against whom the RFEF presided from from 2018 to 2023 is much lower than the one requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, two and a half years in prison, one year for the kiss and a year and a half for the coercion.
Aggression “of less intensity”
Magistrate Manuel Fernández-Prieto assumed that Rubiales “surprisingly an act that threatens another person’s sexual freedom, without consent of the attacked.”
In any case, the judge justified the low penalty claiming that the aggression “being always reproachable, is framing within those of lower intensity (…) of the Criminal Code, not mediating violence or intimidation.”
The events occurred during the imposition of medals after the triumph of the Spanish in the Women’s World Cup, on August 20, 2023 in Australia, when Rubiales held the head of beautiful with both hands and kissed her on the lips.
The image, seen throughout the world, caused great international outrage.
Before the scandal, FIFA suspended Rubiales in October 2023 of any activity linked to football for three years, a decision confirmed this Friday by the sports arbitration court.
During the trial, the scorer of the Spanish team and current front of the Mexican Tigers, reiterated that he never gave his consent to the kiss and reported the “countless” times they asked from the RFEF to pronounce to take importance to the scandal.
Rubiales, on the contrary, declared in the court to be “totally sure” how beautiful he consented.
The “courage” of beautiful
“I find the condemnation for sexual assault. What seems striking, rare, (s) that there is no condemnation of coercion,” player Irene Paredes, a beautiful companion in the selection and who declared in his favor in the trial.
“There has been something clear, an unseeled kiss is a sexual assault,” the Spanish Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, who thanked “the courage” of the player for, “at a difficult time, take the initiative to report.”
The other three accused of coercion, the former selector of the Women’s Red, Jorge Vilda, and two former leaders of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rubén Rivera and Albert Luque, who were only tried for this crime, were acquitted.
From a reform of the Spanish Criminal Code last year, an unseeled kiss can be considered sexual aggression, a criminal category that groups all types of sexual violence.
The trial of Rubiales and his close surroundings became a symbol in the fight against sexism in Spanish sport and resulted in the #Seacabó label, flag of a movement of support for the players.
Rubiales, 47, is also judicially investigated for alleged corruption and irregular contracts during its presidency of the RFEF, particularly for the agreement led by the Super Cup of Spain to Saudi Arabia.
