Rubiales’ mom goes on starvation strike in Spain over ‘hunt’ on son

AFP

The mom of Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales, who faces backlash for his unsolicited kiss on participant Jenni Hermoso, locked herself inside a church and introduced a starvation strike to protest her son’s “inhumane treatment”, EFE news company reported.

Angeles Bejar mentioned her strike would final “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, in keeping with EFE.

Rubiales was suspended on Saturday by FIFA after he kissed the nationwide workforce star throughout the awards ceremony after Spain’s world cup win in Sydney.

According to EFE, Bejar stayed contained in the parish church of Divina Pastora in Rubiales’ hometown in southern Spain, Motril, along with her sister after the parish priest left.

She requested Hermoso to inform the reality and “stick to the version she gave at the beginning”, EFE added.

“There is no sexual abuse since there is consent on both sides, as the images prove,” Bejar advised EFE as she questioned “why they’re taking it out on him” and what “is behind this whole story”.

“My son is incapable of hurting anyone,” Bejar mentioned.

Rubiales, 46, has been defiant over the kiss – which has been condemned as undesirable by Hermoso, her teammates and the Spanish authorities – arguing it was consensual.

At a federation assembly on Friday the place he had been broadly anticipated to step down, Rubiales as a substitute refused to stop, looking for to defend his behaviour and calling the kiss “spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual”.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has issued a press release for him, saying Rubiales “will defend himself legally in the competent bodies” to show “his complete innocence”.

Hermoso mentioned she didn’t consent to the kiss and felt “vulnerable and the victim of an aggression”.