Judge Francisco de Jorge investigating the kiss of the former president of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales to actress Jennifer Hermoso During the last World Cup final, Francisco de Jorge called national team player Laia Codina and National Women’s Football Committee president Rafael del Amo to testify as witnesses on November 16.
Two new witnesses in the case alleged reason sexual assault and don’t force They come to add to depositions still pending in the case, and this comes despite the same week Hermoso’s legal representative asked the National Court judge to take action against the leaks, going so far as to suggest doing so “if necessary”. Testimony by Spanish team manager Albert Luque and other witnesses, already scheduled for the coming weeks, has been suspended.
Del Amo was the only member of the Federation’s board of directors to demand Rubiales’ dismissal following the events in Australia, signing a statement in which the president expressed “a more categorical and resounding repudiation of his conduct”. . . However, Pedro Rocha, who replaced Rubiales, did not accept this.