Prosecutors need Rubiales to face a yr behind bars for the kiss and 18 months for the coercion cost.
Spanish prosecutors are in search of a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for disgraced ex-football boss Luis Rubiales, who faces trial for kissing Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso in opposition to her will, in line with paperwork judicial.
Prosecutors additionally need Rubiales, who has been accused of sexual assault and coercion, to pay a minimum of 50,000 euros ($54,000) in compensation to Hermoso, they wrote in a doc despatched to Spain's Audiencia Nacional courtroom, the Spanish media reported on Wednesday.
Throughout the incident, which occurred on August 20 after Spain beat England to win the Ladies's World Cup last in Australia, Rubiales held Hermoso's head in each fingers and kissed her forcefully on the lips.
The kiss occurred stay in entrance of the cameras of the world, inflicting widespread outrage and inflicting his suspension by the world governing physique of soccer FIFA.
On the time, Rubiales brushed it off as a “consensual” peck on the lips, however Hermoso, 33, stated it wasn't.
Beneath Spanish legislation, a kiss with out consent could be categorized as sexual assault – a felony class that features all forms of sexual violence.
Rubiales “grabbed the participant's head with each fingers, and surprisingly and with out the participant's consent or acceptance, he kissed her on the lips,” prosecutors wrote.
After realizing that the kiss might have “private {and professional} penalties” along with his suspension from FIFA on August 26, Rubiales and his entourage started to exert “fixed strain” on Hermoso to “justify publicly” the kiss as consensual.
The strain precipitated her “intense nervousness and stress” for a number of months, they wrote.
Prosecutors have requested that the 46-year-old do a yr behind bars for the kiss, and 18 months for the cost of coercion.
Three of his former associates are additionally tried to place strain on Hermoso: former girls's coach Jorge Vilda, males's group supervisor Albert Luque and Ruben Rivera, head of promoting on the Actual Spanish Soccer Federation ( RFEF).
Hermoso filed a lawsuit in opposition to Rubiales in September, telling the decide she was pressured to defend him each on the flight again from Australia and through a group trip in Ibiza within the Balearic Islands .
As well as, he requested a restraining order stopping Rubiales from coming inside 200 meters (656 toes) of Hermoso and speaking together with her for the subsequent seven and a half years.
If convicted and sentenced because the prosecutor requested, Rubiales wouldn’t essentially need to go to jail. The Spanish penal code permits judges to “exceptionally” droop the jail sentence if – as on this case – not one of the sentences imposed individually exceed two years.
Rubiales was named in a separate corruption investigation that rocked the RFEF final week, when police raided the federation's headquarters and an house belonging to Rubiales, arresting seven folks.
A Spanish courtroom has been investigating since June 2022 whether or not Rubiales dedicated a criminal offense of improper administration when the RFEF agreed with former Barcelona participant Gerard Pique's firm Kosmos to maneuver the Spanish Supercup to Saudi Arabia, a judicial supply advised Reuters information company.
Rubiales, who was within the Dominican Republic throughout final week's searches, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and advised El Espanol newspaper that he would cooperate with the investigation.
A courtroom supply stated his attorneys advised the decide he’ll return from the Dominican Republic on April 6.
