Luis Rubiales, the previous head of Spain’s soccer federation, was convicted on Thursday of sexual assault for forcibly kissing a member of the ladies’s nationwide staff on the lips after the staff gained the 2023 Girls’s World Cup.
Mr. Rubiales’s kiss of the participant, Jennifer Hermoso, set off a nationwide scandal, deepened debates about longstanding sexism in Spanish soccer and have become a watershed second in Spain’s #MeToo motion.
A Spanish court docket on Thursday additionally fined Mr. Rubiales 10,800 euros, about $11,270, however he was not sentenced to jail. It cleared him of a separate cost of coercion.
Ms. Hermoso mentioned that the kiss was not consensual, which Mr. Rubiales disputed. Talking in a courtroom close to Madrid earlier this month, he mentioned, “You don’t win a World Cup daily,” and he added that he had kissed different gamers in celebratory moments.
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