Nov 14 (Reuters) – Former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales had eggs thrown at him throughout a e-book launch in Madrid on Thursday, an assault he mentioned was carried out by his uncle.
Rubiales, 48, was presenting his new e-book “Matar a Rubiales” (Killing Rubiales) on the Espacio Eventize media room in Madrid when a person within the viewers started hurling eggs.
“It was my uncle, my blood uncle, who’s a troublemaker and all the time has been,” Rubiales instructed Radio MARCA. “He got here in with some eggs and threw them at me, however I didn’t know what he had in his arms, and after I noticed him burst in, I believed he was carrying a gun.”
In February, Spain’s Excessive Courtroom discovered Rubiales responsible of sexual assault for kissing ahead Jenni Hermoso with out her consent throughout Spain’s 2023 Girls’s World Cup victory celebrations in Sydney.
He was fined greater than 10,000 euros ($11,662) and obtained a three-year ban by world soccer governing physique FIFA.
The incident triggered a nationwide furore about sexism in Spanish society and girls’s soccer, fuelling momentum for the “Me Too” motion within the nation.
