the former president of the Spanish Football Federation summoned Friday by the Spanish courts

The former president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, will be summoned to court on Friday, a Madrid court announced on Tuesday, September 12. This summons takes place as part of the investigation into his forced kiss on player Jennifer Hermoso after the world coronation of the women’s “Roja”. He is summoned Friday at noon by an investigating judge “to be heard as an accused” and respond to accusations of“sexual assault”the National Audience court said in a press release.

Monday, a Spanish court had given the green light to the start of the investigation, after the resignation on Sunday of the former president of the Spanish Football Federation. The investigating judge, Francisco de Jorge, at the request of the prosecution, requested that proceedings be initiated against Luis Rubiales for “sexual assault” And “crime of coercion”.

The judge also asked different media to send him images from different angles of Rubiales’ kiss on Hermoso’s mouth as well as the celebration in the locker room and on the bus of the Spanish players after their world title on August 20. , in Sydney.