He was fined greater than €10,000 euros ($16,380) in Audiencia Nacional courtroom on Thursday and ordered to not get inside 200 metres of Hermoso or communice along with her for a yr.
Rubiales was cleared of the cost of coercion for making an attempt to downplay the kiss on the lips of Hermoso throughout the awards ceremony after the ultimate in Sydney.
Rubiales mentioned Hermoso consented to the kiss however she denied it.
Three different former Spanish federation members accused of coercion — former ladies’s workforce coach Jorge Vilda, sports activities director of the boys’s workforce Albert Luque, and head of selling Ruben Rivera — additionally have been cleared.
Hermoso mentioned throughout her testimony she “felt disrespected” by Rubiales after successful the World Cup. She mentioned she was pressured into recording a video with Rubiales, then the federation president, to downplay the kiss.
Rubiales and the opposite defendants mentioned they by no means tried to stress Hermoso into doing something. They claimed she did not give any significance to the kiss when it occurred.
Rubiales resigned beneath stress three weeks after the scandal surfaced and was banned by FIFA for 3 years. He had mentioned he was the sufferer of a “witch hunt” by “false feminists”.
Throughout his testimony he mentioned he regretted the kiss as a result of it wasn’t the precise angle for a nationwide federation president. He mentioned it shouldn’t be thought-about sexual assault, although.
The kiss prompted widespread outrage in society past soccer, and ignited one of the vital embarrassing scandals within the historical past of Spanish soccer.
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