Former Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of kissing player Jenni Hermoso without consent after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023.
Spain’s High Court has ordered Rubiales to pay a fine worth more than £8,274 (€10,000) but has acquitted him of coercion. Prosecutors had demanded a prison sentence for Rubiales.
World Cup winner Hermoso previously told Rubiales’s trial in Madrid she “never” agreed to the former Spanish football chief kissing her on the lips – and the moment “tainted one of the happiest days” of her life.
Rubiales, 47, stood accused of sexual assault and of then attempting to coerce Hermoso into declaring the kiss had been consensual.
He denied the charges, claiming the kiss was consensual and happened in a “moment of jubilation”.
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