Spain coach De La Fuente summoned in Rubiales kiss case

Spain coach De La Fuente summoned in Rubiales kiss case

Published September 29,2023


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Spain males’s coach Luis de la Fuente was summoned Friday as a witness by the choose investigating former president of the Spanish soccer federation Luis Rubiales’ forcible kiss and alleged coercion of ladies’s worldwide Jenni Hermoso.

Judge Francisco de Jorge has known as on De la Fuente to seem, in addition to the federation’s director of communication, Pablo Garcia Cuervo, and several other different employees, judicial sources instructed AFP.

De La Fuente and Garcia will seem in court docket on October 20, whereas others together with the ladies’s workforce’s psychologist have been summoned for October 27.

The choose of Spain’s prime felony court docket, is constant his investigation into Rubiales’ alleged crimes of sexual assault and coercion after he kissed Hermoso on the lips on the medal ceremony in Sydney on August 20, after La Roja gained the event.

On Wednesday, the choose stated Spain’s controversial former ladies’s coach Jorge Vilda is being investigated as a part of the probe into the kiss scandal, together with Albert Luque, director of the boys’s nationwide workforce, and Ruben Rivera, advertising and marketing director for the federation.

The court docket didn’t make clear exactly the character of the case surrounding Vilda, who is about to seem in court docket on October 10, whereas the choose postponed Luque’s look till October 16.

Three gamers from the ladies’s workforce, together with two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas, are set to testify on October 2.

Rubiales resigned from his put up after worldwide backlash towards his actions, making his first look in court docket on September 15.

The choose hit Rubiales with a restraining order, banning him from being inside 200 metres of Hermoso.

On Monday, the choose heard testimony from Hermoso’s brother and one among her mates.

Both confirmed Hermoso’s statements that she didn’t consent to the kiss and had been underneath stress to justify Rubiales’ actions.

Source: www.anews.com.tr