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March 7 – Spanish prosecutors are in search of a retrial of the nation’s disgraced former FA chief Luis Rubiales, arguing the decide incorrectly saved some proof from the court docket and questioning his impartiality.
Rubiales was discovered responsible of sexual assault and fined greater than €10,000 for the unconsented kiss on Jenni Hermoso on the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup medal ceremony.
The court docket’s ruling additionally banned the previous Spanish FA (RFEF) president from going inside a 200m radius of Hermoso or speaking together with her for one 12 months.
He and three different defendants – Jorge Vilda, coach of the World Cup-winning aspect, Rubén Rivera, the RFEF’s former head of promoting, and Albert Luque, former sporting director – had been cleared of coercion prices they confronted for allegedly making an attempt to persuade Hermoso to downplay the kiss that sparked outrage in Spain and prompted a worldwide backlash.
Prosecutors had initially requested for a two-and-a-half 12 months jail sentence for Rubiales on the sexual assault and coercion prices. He denied wrongdoing and was spared a jail time period.
They declare the decide was disrespectful and referred to as for a brand new decide to supervise a brand new trial.
Feminist teams have claimed the decision was too lenient and Hermoso is interesting it.
Prosecutors stated in an announcement that they had been requesting the trial be declared null and void and “held once more by one other decide not tainted, to say the least, by an look of bias”.
They stated Decide Jose Manuel Fernandez-Prieto “unduly” prevented the prosecutor within the trial, Marta Durantez, from posing sure questions and ignored a number of the proof. Additionally they cited the “arbitrariness” of the sentence.
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