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Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by Fifa following his conduct at the women’s World Cup final in Sydney last weekend.
Rubiales has refused to resign from his post after kissing Jenni Hermoso – who has stressed she did not consent – on the lips, prompting Fifa to step in.
A Fifa statement said: “The chairman of the Fifa Disciplinary Committee, Jorge Ivan Palacio (Colombia), in use of the powers granted by article 51 of the Fifa Disciplinary Code (FDC), has decided today to provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3884922
Archived version
“Once accredited by the RFEF that the player Mrs. Jennifer Hermoso lied in the statements she made, through the FutPro Union, we have been aware of a new statement - now yes, of the player - where, in a text clearly prepared by third parties, to have the necessary elements for the suspension of the functions of the President of the Federation, we must state that Mrs. Jennifer Hermoso lies in all the statements she makes against the President, as we will have the opportunity to prove at the appropriate time.
That we have all the relevant reports and expert reports that prove what was stated by the President and that we are going to exercise the corresponding legal actions against all those people who are falsifying reality and committing very serious crimes.
It is extraordinarily incomprehensible that Mrs. Hermoso, despite describing the superficial kiss as “a mere anecdote without transcendence” in her statements before the FIFA welfare officer - immediately after the events -; or to declare before the media that “I can only say that it has been the moment, the effusion and the moment, that there is nothing beyond, and that it is going to stay in an anecdote and that’s it, that… people … if they want to give him hype they are going to give it to him and who doesn’t then not” ; and that also posted a video on social networks in which she points out that she had authorized that kiss as a sign of effusiveness with a “okay”; she now affirms in that elaborate statement that she considers the aforementioned anecdotes as an “abuse in which she did not give consent,” feeling “vulnerable and victim of an aggression, an impulsive and sexist act out of place and without any consent on my part.”
The serious contradictions in the initial account of what happened - which are evident in the integrity report - and the serious accusations made by Ms. Hermoso since she has been abducted by the FutPro Syndicate move us to ask ourselves what interests the surprising change in the initial version and qualification of the facts responds to.
The facts are what they are; and, no matter how many statements you want to take out to distort reality, it is impossible to change what happened. The beak was spoiled. Consent is given at the moment with the conditions of the moment. Then you can think that you have made a mistake, but you can’t change reality.”