Jenni Hermoso Appeals and Requests Rubiales' Conviction for Coercion

Jenni Hermoso has appealed the ruling against Luis Rubiales, requesting that the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) also be convicted for the coercion she was subjected to, asserting that "the threats received and their consequences were real."

In her appeal to the Criminal Chamber of the National Court, reported by Europa Press, the player's representation requests that both Rubiales and the former director of the Spanish team Albert Luque, the former women's team coach Jorge Vilda, and the former FEF marketing manager Rubén Rivera, be sentenced to one year and six months in prison for the crime of coercion.

Should this request not be granted, and as a subsidiary measure, her lawyer asks for the sentence regarding the sexual assault crime against Rubiales to be revoked and that, instead of the 18-month fine he was sentenced to, he be given a one-year prison sentence.

In her appeal, Jenni Hermoso's lawyer criticises that Judge José Manuel Fernández-Prieto considered in the ruling that "there is no described act of violence or intimidation against" the player "directly aimed at preventing her from doing what the law does not prohibit or compelling her to do what she does not want."

"The sentence omits any reasoning regarding certain evidence presented in the plenary, leaving it devoid of any reasoning regarding its assessment to understand the intellectual construction of the resolution and which could lead to a conviction of the accused for this crime," it laments.