(CNN) — The Prosecutor’s Workplace of the Nationwide Court docket requested two years and 6 months in jail for the previous president of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation, Luis Rubiales, within the case investigating the kiss he gave to Jennifer Hermoso, participant of the Spanish Ladies’s Soccer Staff, within the last of the Ladies’s World Cup held in August in Sydney.

The Public Ministry requests one yr in jail, supervised launch for 2 years, the prohibition of speaking with or approaching Hermoso inside 200 meters for 4 years and US$54,100 in compensation for the soccer participant for the alleged fee of a criminal offense of sexual assault. by kissing Hermoso “with out the participant’s consent or acceptance,” in accordance with the indictment to which CNN has had entry.

Request to which he provides one other yr and a half in jail for him, for the previous coach of the Spanish girls’s staff, Jorge Vilda, former advertising and marketing supervisor of the RFEF, Rubén Rivera, and the sports activities director of the Spanish males’s staff, Albert Luque, for an alleged crime of coercion when it was understood that they pressured the participant and her setting to justify the kiss.

The Prosecutor’s Workplace request additionally requests that Rubiales, along with the opposite defendants, compensate Hermoso with one other US$54,100.

CNN is attempting to acquire feedback from the protection of the accused and Hermoso’s lawyer.

Rubiales and the opposite three males every denied the fees towards them in statements they made earlier than the decide in current months, in accordance with the courtroom’s prosecutor’s workplace in statements made after their respective hearings.

Public protests over the undesirable kiss, and Rubiales’s staunch protection of it, have come from all spheres of Spanish society, together with politicians and sports activities stars.

The incident additionally sparked debate concerning the prevalence of “machista tradition” in Spain, a rustic that has seen mass protests towards sexual violence and sexism lately.

Rubiales’ preliminary refusal to resign additionally sparked monumental solidarity amongst Spanish gamers.

The coaches of the Spanish girls’s staff resigned en masse and greater than 80 Spanish soccer gamers signed an announcement of assist for Hermoso, stating that they’d not return to the staff “if the present leaders proceed” of their positions.

Because the controversy dragged on, a number of soccer groups, each males’s and ladies’s, confirmed their assist for Hermoso at their video games: some held t-shirts, others wore bracelets, and others displayed banners.

Final September, World Cup-winning coach Vilda was additionally dismissed from his place.

Vilda had been recorded touching an worker inappropriately through the Ladies’s World Cup last. He was changed by Montse Tomé, the primary girl within the historical past of the Spanish staff to carry the place.