There is “no doubt” on the fact that the kiss imposed by Luis Rubiales on Jenni Hermoso in 2023 was “not consented”, said on Wednesday the prosecutor Marta Durántez Gil in his conclusions presented at the trial of the ex-boss Spanish football.
“It was a kiss not consented: I believe that after examination, there is no doubt, or at least no reasonable doubt sufficient,” said the prosecutor, confirming the sentence of two and a half years in prison required Against Luis Rubiales, judged for sexual assault and for the pressures exerted on the player to alleviate the scandal.
“There is no precedent of animosity” which could have led Jenni Hermoso to “not tell the truth about what happened at the time of the kiss and the constraints” which followed, underlined the prosecutor, insisting on The “total coherence between the facts she told and her immediate and subsequent behavior”.
In 2025, “this arouses in me a certain rejection (…) to continue to ask the victims of a sexual assault why they laughed, why they celebrated,” also launched Ms. Durántez Gil, evoking the video celebration videos , Jenni Hermoso in mind, broadcast after the Spanish victory in the World Cup final, and therefore after the kiss, and put forward by the defense.
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“She had shared feelings, she wanted to go unnoticed, that all of this was not reduced to the unconted kiss, but to the triumph of the Spanish selection,” said the prosecutor: “Is it less victim for this?” ».
Jenni Hermoso was “facing the power of a whole football federation and a president who was not at the head of many things, but absolutely everything,” said the prosecutor.
“What delays complaint?” Again, it’s always the same with crimes of sexual assault. Can you tell me when it is necessary to file a complaint for the victim to be believed? “Continued Ms. Durántez Gil.
Heard Tuesday for the first time since the start of his trial, Luis Rubiales assured that he was “absolutely sure” that Jenni Hermoso had given him his consent before he kissed him.
The player firmly dismissed this idea on the first day of audience on February 3, also describing the “countless” pressures that she had suffered after this gesture to minimize the importance and stifle the scandal.