The Rubiales Outrage Ramps Up As His Caribbean Home Is Raided In The Midst of A Corruption Investigation, He Is Later Arrested And De-Arrested At Madrid Airport, And Spanish TV Channel La Sexta Interview Him Hours After The Drama To Get His Thoughts On His Dramatic Dynamic Downfall.
What He Has To Say Is Truly Remarkable.
Cases Continue!
On Wednesday April 3rd 2024 He Was Arrested On His Return To Spain At Madrid Airport, After A Warrant Was Previously Issued For His Arrest When Guardia Civil (Spanish Police) Raided RFEF HQ And His Home In Granada On Wednesday March 20th 2024.
On Monday April 1st 2024 (Both Easter Monday And UK April Fools Day) After Reportedly Travelling Abroad To His Residence In The Dominican Republic Guardia Civil (Spanish Police) Retrieve A Number of Digital Devices.
It Is From His New Home Land of The Domenican Republic That He Is Interviewed By Spanish Journalist Ana Pastor For Spanish TV Channel La Sexta. It’s A Great Interview And She Does A Great Job, Especially When He Talks Sex Workers And Truth Serums. According To www.lasexta.com It Took Place Just Before He Flew Back To Spain On Wednesday April 3rd 2024.
Our Previous Extensive Reporting On This Case Can Be Found In Our March 2024 And August 2023 Issues of TheOrator.Press (TO.P).
Rubiales At The Emergency General Assembly Meeting Friday August 25th 2023
The Arrest of Rubiales At Madrid Airport Relates To A Seperate Corruption Investigation Called Operation Brody.
Operation Brody Concerns Alleged Financial Impropriety Including When Rubiales Was Involved In Moving Spain’s SuperCopa Football Tournament To Saudi Arabia During His 5 Year RFEF Tenure As (Royal Federation Espanol Futbol) President.
It Seems Pertinent To Remember At This Point ThatThe Right To’ & ‘The Importance of’ Sport’ – Is Enshrined In The Spanish Culture And The Spanish Constitution.
So The Case of Rubiales (As It Is Referred To By Some In Spain) Seems Like An Especially Seismic Historical Moment With Great Potential For Great Historical Change.
Both In Football In Particular And Society In General.
Despite Repeated Protestations To The Contrary In His Now Infamous Speech At The RFEF Emergency General Assembly Meeting (Reportedly Called By Him) On Friday August 25th 2023, In Which He Declared Five Times In Succession “No voy a dimitir” (I Will Not Resign), He Did Inf Fact Eventually Resign. This Was By A Letter Written To New Acting President Pedro Rocha, Presented On Sunday September 10th 2023, As Confirmed By RFEF On Monday 11th September 2023.
He Seemed To Have Little Choice After FIFA Suspened Him On Saturday August 26th 2023 Following An Official Statement From Spanish Team Player Jenni Hermoso.
He Now Awaits Trial For Sexual Assault And Coercion Following His Contested Kiss At The World Cup Medal Ceremony On Sunday August 20th 2023 of Former Real Madrid Striker Hermoso Who Now Plays For Spain’s World Cup Winning Women’s Team And Mexico’s Tigress.
Rubiales Insists That He Is Innocent of Any Wrongdoing And That Hermoso Consented To The Kiss Which Caused International Outrage As It Happened In Real Time On The World Stage. His Lack of Contrition And Humility In The Face of Such Circumstances Witnessed By The Whole World Is Partly Why The Case Against Him Is Particularly Brutal.
He Does Nonetheless Have His Supporters And They And His Love For Them Can Be Found On The Social (Anti-Social) Media Platform X Formerly Known As Twitter @LuisRubiales17. The Platform Is Owned By Extreme Right Entrepreneur Elon Musk And Supporter of The Infamous One Term White Supremacist 45th President.
Rubiales On Gender Equality
Spanish Journalist Ana Pastor Interviews Her Embattled Compatriot Former RFEF President Luis Rubiales At His New Home In The Domenican Republic Days After His Home Was Raided By Police As Part of New Corruption Investigation Called Operation Brody.
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He Says He Supports Gender Equality But Not False Femimism Nor Radicalism. It Is In Spanish With Spanish Subtitles. We Have Requested The Spanish Translation of The Whole Exchange But Until Then We’ve Brought You The Most Basic Translation of The Best Bits And Clips of Some Very Telling Body Language From Which One Can Glean A Great Deal.
@objetivolasexta (www.lasexta.com)
Rubiales On Jenni Hermoso
Spanish Journalist Ana Pastor Interviews Rubiales In Their Mother Tongue At His Home In The Dominian Republic.
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Regarding Jenni Hermoso He Still Maintains He Can’t See What The Problem Is (Apart From What He Considers ‘Radicals’ And ‘False Feminists’ Interferring And Moving Against Him). He Asked For Permission And She Gave It To Him He Says.
He Says That It’s Just His Humble Opinion, But For Him No Crime Took Place. The Irony Is That His Overwhelming Lack of Humility Has Alot To Do Wth How He Got Here. Even If Not Fluent In Spanish One Can Glean A Strong Sense of His Attitude Just From His Body Language And Tone.
He Protests That It Seems Jenni Hermoso Is Not Questioned Because She Is A Woman, But He Is Questioned Because He Is A Man. He Is Reminded That It Is Him Who Is On Trial Not Jenni Hermoso. A Small But Super Seriously Significant Technical Legal Detail!
The Case Continues.
A Court Date Is Yet To Be Set.
However The Prosecutor Did Issue A Press Statement Last Month Declaring They Are Seeking A Two And A Half Year Jail Sentence And 86, 000 Euros In Compensation.
(As Reported In TheOrator.Press Back Page: The Sports Port Seperately This Month In A Rubialas Timeline Review)
@objetivolasexta (www.lasexta.com)
Rubiales On Truth Serum And Sex Workers
Spanish Journalist Ana Pastor Points Out A Small But Significant Technicality To Former RFEF President Luis Rubiales During Her Interview With Him In Their Native Language of Spanish.
@objetivolasexta (www.lasexta.com)
The Devil Is In The Detail. Interviewed At His New Home In The Dominican Republic, Where He Now Lives As He Explains He Can No Longer Do Business In Spain Because His Accounts Are Frozen And The Media Have Brutalized Him,
Its Hours After It Was Raided Early April In The New Corruption Case Against Him Named ‘Operation Brody.’
With A Curious Choice of Words To Somehow Persuade The World That He Has Integrity, He Impugnes Sex Workers In The Process By Saying A Truth Serum Would Prove That He’s Never Been With One In His Life. Some People May Argue That Some Sex Workers Have More Integrity Than He Does (Especially In Those Countries Where The Oldest Profession In The World Is Regulated And Licensed). Ana, More Technically, Deftly And Directly Simply Points Out That He Knows There Is No Such Truth Serum And She Does Not Believe In Truth Serums!
@objetivolasexta (www.lasexta.com)
Comment: Bravo Ana! Let’s Keep It Real! (Literally!)
In So Many Ways This Exposed Former RFEF President Reminds Us of Another Former President Who Disrespects Women, Takes No Responsibility For His Own Actions And Blames Everyone Else!
To All Our American Friends, Please Prepare Now To Vote In November When Election Day Comes.
It Will Be So Interesting To See What That Misogynistic Former President Says If & When He Loses Yet Again.
Spanish TV Channel La Sexta Recorded The Airport Apprehension of The Former RFEF President On Wednesday April 3rd 2023.
Rubiales Reportedly Exercised His Right To Silence And Was Later Released. The Cases Continue.
On The Same Day RFEF’s Management Committee Confirmed That New Presidential Elections Would Be Held in May. [In February It Confirmed That The Contract of Luis del la Fuente, The National Men’s Team Coach Would Be Extended To 2026 @RFEF]
The Rubiales Unravelling: The Timeline
Wednesday March 20 2024 Both The Madrid Headquarters of RFEF And The Home of Rubiales In Granada Were Raided As Part of A Seperate Anti-Corruption Investigation Known As Operacion Brody Which Is Looking Into Money Laundering. A Warrant Was Also Issued For The Arrest of Luis Rubiales Who Was At His Dominican Republic Residence At The Time (This Is Six Months To The Day Since The Hermoso Unconsented Kiss, Which Is Being Dealt With In A Seperate Case).
These Raids Seem Deeply Significant As It Now Means Officially Both Rubiales The Man And RFEF The Institution Are Now Embroiled In This Sporting Mess And Feature At The Heart of It (Notwithstanding The RFEF Apology of September 5th 2023).
It Seems Pertinent To Remember At This Point That ‘The Right To’ & ‘The Importance of’ Sport – Is Enshrined In The Spanish Culture And The Spanish Constitution So This Is Quadrupoley Series.
Meantime RFEF Released Both Its In-House And External Legal Teams As Well As Its HR Team Too. It Nonetheless Confirmed It Would Be Suing All Those Involved In Any Corruption And Reputational Damage of The Federation In Relation To This Matter.
[Wednesdy March 27 2024 RFEF Issued Another Statement Saying That In Light of The Pending Olympics, The 2030 World Cup Bid, And The Recent Events It Would Cooperating With A Forensic Audit As The Organisation Is Greater Than Any of Its Former Leaders]
Monday April 1st 2024 (Both UK Easter Monday And April Fools Day) After Reportedly Travelling Abroad To His Residence In The Dominican Republic Guardia Civil (Spanish Police) Retrieve A Number of Digital Devices.
Wednesday April 3 2024 Exactly Two Weeks After The RFEF HQ Raid, And Granada Raid, Rubiales Landed Back In Madrid From The Dominican Republic Where He Says He Now Lives As He Can No Longer Live In Spain Following The Persecution Against Him (As He Sees It). He Was Immediately Arrested And Questioned As Part of The Ongoing Corruption Investigation Into His Five Year Tenure As RFEF President.
As Highlighted In Our August Issue of TheOrator.Press Back Page: The Sport Port, In Addition To Accusations of Sexual Impropriety, He Is Accussed of Improper Financial Dealings Including Some Associated With Moving One of Spain’s Main Football Competitions To Saudi Arabia (The Supercopa de Espana ~ The Spanish Super Cup), Construction Companies And The Misplacement of The Royal Federation Espanol Futbol (RFEF) Funds.
The Investigation Continues.
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