World Cup-winning team captain Jennifer Hermoso will have around two weeks to ask for a case against suspended federation chief Luis Rubiales, who kissed her following Spain's triumph.
Spanish prosecutors opened an investigation of the nation's soccer federation chief, officials said Monday, in connection to his kiss on the lips of a player shortly after winning the World Cup.
The national prosecutors also invited the player, Spain's team captain Jennifer Hermoso, to reach out to them in the next 15 days to report herself as a possible victim of sexual aggression by federation president Luis Rubiales, officials said. Women and soccer fans across the globe were stunned when Rubiales kissed Hermoso flush on the lips during the medal ceremony following Spain’s thrilling,Hermoso has said the kiss wasn't consensual and that “I felt vulnerable and a victim of an impulse-driven, sexist, out-of-place act without any consent on my part.”
Meanwhile, also on Monday, Ángeles Béjar, Rubiales's mother, went on a hunger strike to protest action against her son. Béjar took refuge in the church of the Divina Pastora de Motril on the southern Spanish coast and defended her son. The mother said her hunger strike will run “indefinitely, day and night,”“My son does not deserve what they are doing to him,” she said, adding that he's the target of an “inhuman and bloody hunt.”suspended Rubiales from all soccer activities for 90 days.
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