Former President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales On Tuesday, he gave his most extensive interview since the scandal broke. Before the impending presentation of his book, Defeat Rubialesthe former soccer player went chiringuitoafter kissing Jenni Hermoso, he declared: There was a campaign “by the radical left” and the gesture was used as a “smokescreen” by Pedro Sánchez To grant amnesty to the secessionists.
“Jenni was my friend. I’m not saying they manipulated her or that it was for any other benefit. What I saw was an immediate movement of the far left in our country with a clear direction, creating a parallel reality and instantly changing the script. Pedro Sánchez needed the support of secessionists to take office, and had to be granted amnesty. He said thousands of times that it was illegal and there was no place for it in the Constitution. It’s a smokescreen,” Rubiales said of the government president.
Luis Rubiales said in an interview that “for Pedro Sánchez to become president he needed support from the pro-independence groups and a pardon. And of course… I immediately saw the hypocrisy of the far left in elevating trivial issues to the nth degree. Maybe something happened within their own party and they covered it up, but they obviously came after me. ”
Regarding his political criticism, he added:Yolanda Diaz strips me of the presumption of innocence, first of all.. This deprives me of the presumption of innocence that every Spaniard should have. But when she has internal issues of an equal or greater nature, ‘Yes, I believe in you, sister, I believe in you’ seems to be forgotten,” Rubiales said.
And he criticized Irene Montero. “I believe that women who have done what they have done by taking advantage of the ‘Yes Me Yes’ laws that have allowed rapists to take to the streets… I don’t have the moral capacity to talk about this topic. I humbly understand that,” he said.
“The problem is Justice lies in proportion to how it is treated.. The imbalance, the way the subject matter is handled, the way the protagonist himself alters the story. I’m not fixing my story, I’m not fixing my story. I got it wrong at first because of the tension issues due to the death of a family member and the death of a player. I may have made a mistake, but I haven’t changed anything. “People who see this as a kind of hermetic perspective of radical feminism, and rightly so, think that way, but it’s really not,” she stressed.
”They were laughing when the kiss came out, what a good vibe, what a good vibe, look, they’re so close. And there was a moment when it clicked. And while the change has to be explained within their networks or by the politicians who have changed, there has been a tremendously disproportionate and unwarranted correction in which I have been stripped of my presumption, directly baptized, and it remains intact as a non-consensual kiss, etc.,” Rubiales claimed.
“We’re on a break, so it has to go to the Supreme Court. I’m a lawyer, and the Supreme Court has already said that a connotation of consent alone is not enough to classify kissing as sexual assault.” The kiss must have sexual intent And I think it’s not something that appears in a sentence, but something that has to be typed in a sentence in order for it to be correct. So our argument should be very clearly that institutionally I was wrong, but it’s not a crime, so what was there was a wrong act,” Rubiales concluded.
“I still have not apologized to Jenni Hermoso.”
The former RFEF president also denied that she intended to change her “original testimony” as “others have done”, including herself. Jenni Hermosoregarding him sexual assault For kissing the same player without her consent after the 2023 Women’s World Cup final.
“When a judgment is given, we are all obliged to abide by it, but the rule of law allows us to appeal if we disagree. We actually don’t think this is sexual assault“Rubiales said.
“These are things that happened, but many other things are missing. First of all, as I have said many times, I must say it again. It wasn’t smart and I wasn’t good.I had to get into more presidential mode. But from there on Everything set up in a completely outrageous and distorted wayAnything to the fullest, with the benefits we can talk about now, is more than worth it,” he added.
“I said this in my speech to Congress. I was wrong, the problem is the media didn’t report ithe accused. “As president, I should have been more calm and more organized. I won’t apologize to Jenni Hermoso today, because I asked her and she said, ‘Okay,'” he said, before gently pressing Hermoso’s head at the medal ceremony before making the claim about the “beak.”
“That’s what the judgment says and we agree that’s the evidence. And Jenny and I know that’s not the case. I have no intention of changing my first testimonial like others or Jenny And that’s between her and me. “I asked her for permission and she said okay. It’s also an emotional, non-sexual kiss in front of 80,000 people,” he added.
“Jenni was a good friend, Jenni missed the penalty, she went up and hugged me in a way and, well, gave me a (kiss). Jenny was very helpful in reorganizing the team. After what happened to 15 people, they were actually 18 instead of 15. “Paredes, Jenni, and Alexia Puteras also supported it, although they did not sign it,” he recalled.
“There are many other videos”
“I I know I’m right because I asked her and she said, “Okay.”. I mean, it’s that simple. She knows that and so do I. She knows it, and I know it too. And she changed. It didn’t matter if they withstood the pressure or not, it took a few days…” he speculated, adding, “There are many other videos that never saw the light of day. I was no longer in the federation, but there are many other videos where the direct protagonists make comments and do other things.”
“I had already left the federation and did not have access to them. If I had, it would have been much clearer. There is a time record and there should be no doubt that it was on this line, but it will be even clearer if I participate directly,” he stressed. “I don’t think a mature person, who is 33 years old, has changed his mind. There was an interesting version change”, alluding to Hermoso again.
“I approached her and said, ‘Hey Jenny, you guys, all the experts say it’s best for both of us to go out and say what we’ve already said.’ Video. It would have been obvious that we were eating pizza And we talked about our trip to Egypt,” emphasized the former president of RFEF.
“I was wrong at the beginning because of the tension issues with the death of a family member and a player. I could have made a mistake, but I haven’t changed anything.”
“When I got off in Qatar and arrived here, I realized it was there. perfect stormthere were some media outlets that systematically attacked me, there were media outlets that received large sums of information about La Liga through ‘branded content’, there was that perfect storm,” he explained.
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