Luis Rubiales: Spanish Football Federation regional presidents call for resignation

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Source: BBC

Luis Rubiales: Spanish Football Federation regional presidents call for resignation

28 August 2023 Women's World Cup

Spanish Football Federation regional leaders have called on their president Luis Rubiales to immediately resign after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso.

Rubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after the incident following Spain's Women's World Cup final win.

Hermoso, 33, said the kiss on her lips was not consensual.

Earlier, Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault.

In other developments on Monday, Rubiales' mother Angeles Bejar has locked herself in a Spanish church and gone on a hunger strike because of the "inhuman hunt" against her son. In the evening, hundreds of people gathered in Madrid in support of Hermoso and in protest of Rubiales.

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