By Razeen Gutta
Luis Rubiales will appear in a Madrid court on Friday after Jenni Hermoso filed a case against him for kissing her after the Fifa Women’s World Cup final.
The Spanish forward registered her complaint for sexual assault last week; saying that the kiss was not consensual.
Prosecutor Marta Durantez Gil later added an allegation of coercion after Hermoso said that her family were being pressured by Rubiales.
The former Spanish football federation president stepped down from his post on Sunday due to the controversy and also resigned from his role as Uefa’s executive committee vice president.
His resignation did not change his stance, though, as he claimed in an interview with Piers Morgan that his actions were “mutual”.
“So what we had was a spontaneous act. A mutual act, an act that both consented to, which was driven by the emotion of the moment. So I maintain that that is the truth of what happened. It’s pretty normal in a Latin world,” he said.
Rubiales will appear before a magistrate at 12 pm on Friday.
Pictured above: Luis Rubiales
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