MADRID: Five days after resigning as Spain's football chief,
on Friday on sexual assault charges over forcibly kissing women's World Cup player Jenni Hermoso.
At the hearing, which will be closed to the public, Rubiales will be questioned as a defendant in regards to allegations of"sexual assault", a court statement said earlier this week.The case comes barely four weeks after Rubiales sparked outrage when he forcibly kissed the midfielder in front of the world's media after Spain defeated England in the final on Aug 20.
Under a recent reform of the Spanish penal code, a non-consensual kiss can be considered sexual assault, a category which groups all types of sexual violence. "What we had is a spontaneous act, a mutual act, an act that both consented to, which was driven by the emotion of the moment," he said, describing the kiss as"100 percent non-sexual".
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