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Luis Rubiales: what to know about the World Cup kiss scandal

Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF), has stirred a furore by kissing midfielder Jenni Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup trophy presentation.

Here are main points of the case:

WHO IS HE?

Rubiales, 46, was a defender with several lower league clubs in Spain and Hamilton Academical in Scotland until 2009. He became president of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) a year later before being elected to lead the RFEF in 2018. He vowed to modernise its structure, increase turnover and improve transparency after a corruption scandal.

WHAT DID RUBIALES DO?

When the final whistle blew in Australia on Aug. 20 and Spain had beaten England 1-0, Rubiales grabbed his crotch in celebration while close to Spain’s Queen Letizia and 16-year-old Princess Sofia. When presenting Hermoso with her medal, he held the player on the head and kissed her lips.

Hermoso’s first reaction was to tell team mates “Hey, I didn’t like it”, according to locker room footage. The federation cited her the next day as downplaying the incident, but she denied involvement in that statement and went on to say she did not agree to the kiss and was a victim of sexism.

Rubiales first called critics “idiots” then apologised. “Surely I was wrong, I have to admit,” he said in a video. “It was without bad faith at a time of maximum effusiveness.”

WHAT HAVE AUTHORITIES DONE?

World governing body FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Rubiales and on Aug. 26 provisionally suspended him from all football-related activities for 90 days.

He refused to resign. “A consensual peck is enough to get me out of here? I will fight until the end,” Rubiales told the federation, to the applause of many, including Vilda.

Since that meeting, the RFEF’s regional representatives have urged his resignation.

WHAT HAS THE REACTION BEEN?

Rubiales’ actions on World Cup final day, and later defiance, have brought a torrent of public criticism in Spain and elsewhere, but also a backlash in some circles against feminism.

Spain’s socialist government has taken a tough line: Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz termed the kiss an “attack” while acting Equality Minister Irene Montero told Reuters: “We are sending the correct message to the world, that sexism is over.”

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Rubiales faces at least three legal and administrative challenges, which carry potential sanctions ranging from sacking and disqualification to prison time.

As well as FIFA’s disciplinary committee hearings, the Spanish High Court’s prosecutor plans to contact Hermoso about a possible criminal complaint for sexual aggression, and the state-run National Sports Council (CSD) has asked its Sport Administrative Court (TAD) to look into complaints.

Rubiales, who says he is the victim of a campaign by “false feminists”, and the RFEF, have said they will take their own legal action to prove his innocence.

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Angel Martin

‘Everyone loved Ángel’: Spanish town still grieving for hero who fought wildfires

The smoke-grey skies over Tábara were turning furnace orange as Ángel Martín forced down the ham sandwich that had been pressed on him by his friends at the petrol station and ran to his excavator.

By mid-afternoon on Monday 18 July last year, the 53-year-old builder’s yard owner had been watching the wildfires in the Sierra de la Culebra in north-west Spain creep closer to his town for eight hours, waiting to see whether his trucks and diggers could help fight the blaze.

A little before 3pm, the flames arrived on the edge of Tábara and Martín made the quick, selfless decision that would lead to his death three months later.

His actions, captured on a video that went around the world, would yield some of the starkest and most disturbing images of the scorching and deadly European summer of 2022, the hottest on record.

Minutes after climbing into his excavator to try to dig a firebreak to halt the blaze, Martín and his vehicle were swallowed by the flames and the drifts of thick, black smoke.

A few agonising seconds later, the video showed him somehow managing to stumble and run out of the inferno, his clothes consumed by the flames. He had suffered burns to 80% of his body.

Rescuers bundled Martín into a car and drove him to a nearby health centre, from where he was taken by helicopter to a hospital in the city of Valladolid. Despite the best efforts of medical staff, however, the man hailed in the press as el héroe de Tábara died from his injuries in the early hours of 25 October 2022.

Almost a year after the fires hit – and following its driest April to date – a drought-struck Spain is bracing for another summer of wildfires and heat-related deaths as the realities of the climate emergency become increasingly inescapable across the Iberian peninsula and beyond.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/everyone-loved-angel-spanish-town-still-grieving-for-hero-who-fought-wildfires

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What’s behind the migrant crisis between Morocco and Spain?

A diplomatic rift has deepened between Spain and Morocco after thousands of undocumented migrants attempted to enter Spanish territory in the northern African country.

Ceuta and Melilla have been under Spanish rule since the 17th century, although Morocco has claimed the territories as its own since its independence in 1956. Some believe that the current tension between Spain and Morocco stems from Spain accepting Brahim Ghali, the leader of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front, which wants independence from Moroccan administration for Western Sahara, to be admitted to a hospital in Spain for treatment last month, angering Rabat.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/spain-and-morocco-clash-after-thousands-of-migrants-enter-ceuta.html

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Brand new Caravaggio

Caravaggio: Spain stops auction over possible long-lost masterpiece.

Some experts have no doubt whose brushstrokes are on the canvas.

“It’s him,” Maria Cristina Terzaghi, an art history expert told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.

“It is now necessary to carry out an in-depth technical and scientific study of the painting and engage in academic debate as to whether its attribution to Caravaggio is truly plausible and acceptable to the scientific community,” a source at the culture ministry told AFP.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56675290

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Apostasia

Logo of The Campaign for Collective Apostasy in Spain, calling for defection from the Catholic Church.

Why are increasing numbers of Spaniards “apostasising,” or actively removing themselves from the registers of the Catholic Church?


Apostasy : the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.

https://www.rug.nl/research/centre-for-religious-studies/religion-conflict-globalization/blog/apostasy-between-the-personal-and-political-27-01-2020?lang=en

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Spain elections : far-right Vox more than doubled its seats

Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal

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Violence erupts after pro-Catalan general strike in Barcelona

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