BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Spanish state prosecutors have charged Luis Rubiales with sexual assault and coercion Kiss the player on the lips with out her consent after the Girls’s World Cup ultimate, the nation’s public prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on Friday.
Rubiales, the now suspended president of the Spanish Soccer Federation, kissed Jenny Hermoso on the lips throughout the awards ceremony after Spain beat England to win the title on August 20 in Sydney, Australia.
Prosecutors introduced a case in opposition to Rubiales to the Spanish Nationwide Courtroom in Madrid two days after Hermoso formally charged him with sexual assault.
Underneath the sexual consent regulation handed final yr, Rubiales may face a wonderful or a jail sentence of between one and 4 years if he’s discovered responsible of sexual assault.
Prosecutors added Friday that Rubiales may have dedicated an act of coercion when he pressured her, in accordance with Hermoso, to talk out in his protection as soon as the scandal broke concerning his conduct.
Rubiales insisted that the kiss was consensual. Hermoso denied this in statements issued by it and its gamers affiliation.
Prosecutors requested the decide to seem in court docket for his preliminary testimony.
If the Nationwide Courtroom decide agrees to listen to the case, it can result in a proper court docket investigation which can finish in a suggestion to both dismiss the case or refer it to trial.
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