The legal process of the Rubiales case has reached a new dimension. From the beginning, there have been constant leaks about people who testified.: From the statement of the former president of the federation to the statement of the international player. To this we must also add the WhatsApp announced on Monday from mentioned persons such as Albert Luque, director of the men’s team, or RFEF marketing director Rubén Rivera.
This series of leaks comes from Jenni Hermoso’s representation agency, TMJ. “remember that all criminal proceedings must be carried out with guarantees that will protect the rights of the victims”. Although it was not clearly stated in the communication which statements led to this position, in practice testimonies emerged from the beginning of the process, even immediately. Hermoso even asked the judge to postpone the subpoenas of Luque and the witnesses already called due to these leaks.
“These events not only put his health at risk, but also the credibility and independence of the judicial process in which we have always relied so heavily,” the company representing Hermoso said. Perform different actions for “Protect and guarantee your privacy.” Among them, they called on “the competent authorities to take action against those responsible for the leaks and to seek solutions that will guarantee the security and preservation of the information in the case throughout the criminal process.”
Statement by Luis Rubiales
Luis Rubiales’ 54 minutes and 36 seconds of testimony at the National Court was published by ‘El Español’ on October 4. “We won the World Cup, there are signs of affection. This is not someone sneaking someone into the office and forcefully kissing them. No. It was a very natural thing for two people who have been living together for a long time to be in front of millions of eyes.“Rubiales said in his statement.
When one of the lawyers asked him if he thought he respected Jennifer Hermoso when he kissed her, Rubiales replied: “Come on, I’ve asked her before! How can I not respect it? And he left laughing, slapping me twice on the side.The former president of the RFEF also assured that Jennifer Hermoso “was not telling the truth even when she said that I had two daughters”. “How can I ask for forgiveness if we were both very happy?” There are three.”
Testimony of Jenni Hermoso
On October 9, the program ‘Código 10’ on Telecinco revealed the testimony of Jenni Hermoso before the chief prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Durántez. “This was never consented to. I didn’t feel respected, neither as a player nor as a person.. I was experiencing something historic and I thought something like that would have consequences. “I did nothing to find myself in this situation,” Pachuca’s current player said of the incident in the Sydney final.
“It was a historical event, it cost our lives, I could never have expected something like this to happen. I hugged the queen, her daughter… Rubiales was a reliable person, I did not think he would do this.” something like this. I didn’t have time to react, I immediately went down to the stage and the first thing I did was tell my two friends: To Alexia Putellas and Irene Paredes,” the actor said in his version of events.
Words by Alexia Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez
Various media outlets also included statements by national team players Alexia Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez, as well as Jennifer Hermoso’s teammates. The three supported the Pachuca football player’s version of kissing Luis Rubiales without his consent in front of the judge. According to sources in the judicial process, the three players confirmed themselves one by one in their previous statements before the prosecutor’s office.
The three actors shared secrets with Jennifer Hermoso in the hours after the kiss. The judge’s questioning was aimed first and foremost at establishing the “direct knowledge” of Hermoso’s colleagues about these alleged pressures at certain specific moments.
The appearance of Jorge Vilda
The appearance of Jorge Vilda, whom the judge named as a defendant in the Rubiales case, happened to Albert Luque after the testimony of Jenni Hermoso’s brother. The former coach acknowledged speaking to him but denied pressure or coercion and cut ties with the former president. RFEF, Luis Rubiales. He assured her that he was doing it “motu proprio” to “get the soufflé down” and justified that he did not speak to her directly because he saw that she was overwhelmed.
Vilda also assured that she noticed a difference between the atmosphere between the players in the stadium where the final was played and the atmosphere on the return flight. When he saw the actor, whom he said he admired very much, so overwhelmed, he chose to talk to his brother, according to his own statement. In this conversation, according to Vilda, she downplayed the kiss and the then-coach He suggested to her that perhaps it would be better if she went out and gave her version to the media “to get the soufflé down.”
WhatsApps from Luque to a friend from Hermoso
In addition to judicial statements, contents about those who participated in the investigation were also leaked. This situation WhatsApp sent by National Team Director Albert Luque, to a close friend of Jenni Hermoso. “He deserves nothing because of his human baseness, ‘His little empathy and humanity for Rubiales in the messages made public on El Mundo,’ he wrote.
The former president of the RFEF stated, without showing any signs of remorse, that this was “a natural thing between two people who have lived together for a long time.” Albert Luque will testify in the National Court this Monday.
Messages from RFEF and Hermoso’s marketing director
The latest leak in the Rubiales case concerned conversations between Jennifer Hermoso and RFEF marketing director Rubén Rivera during the player’s trip to Ibiza after winning the World Cup. According to what the Spanish player stated both at the prosecutor’s office and to his friend: Ana Ecube, RFEF’s marketing director, would pressure and pressure them To ‘soften’ the situation, Jennifer testified on behalf of Luis Rubiales.
However, Rivera argues that the messages sent via Hermoso had a casual tone. and the player says “Make magic!” He presented screenshots of the messages between the two, which included statements such as. (to ask if her friend Ana Ecube could join the trip) or “Rubén, can you tell your wife that I don’t have a bikini? She asked me, and I said I did, haha.”
As soon as we arrived in Ibiza, the first pressure that Jenni Hermoso reported would come: the phone call from Integrity director Miguel García Caba. “I tell him to leave me alone, I had just arrived in Ibiza having been sleepless for two days. I told him to put the phone down,” Hermoso said, adding that Rivera would try to persuade him to talk to Luque this time in the afternoon.
Ana Álvarez’s position is communications director
One of the first leaks of this process, which only resulted due to other accusations being investigated, was the position of Ana Álvarez, communications director of the women’s team. Álvarez assured that Jennifer Hermoso approved the declaration sent by RFEF on her behalf. This will also be confirmed by Pablo García Cuevo (who will appear on the scene on October 20) and press chief Patricia Pérez, who was also dismissed as communications director.
More leaks and condemnations from the judge
Depending on how events develop in the trial of the Rubiales case and the systematic leaks of witnesses and defendants, the testimony of future parties is also expected to gradually decline.. We are talking about the setting of the case and interesting explanations that will affect the development of the process..
All this led the National Court judge Francisco de Jorge to remove the audio of the statements and minutes from the platform, along with the case documents to which the parties had access. In this way, anyone who wishes to follow the investigation and consult them to respond to new disclosures, It must be done in person at the National Court. A process that will preserve the confidentiality of the process and prevent Jennifer Hermoso from considering not testifying before the judge, as evidenced by her statement.