Fifa has suspended Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities following his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final in Sydney

  • jorge
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    182 years ago

    Fire the guy, ban him from football for life, but does he need to be arrested?

    It is not up to you to decide. The Spanish law is pretty clear in this respect, and a non-consensual kiss is explicitly defined as sexual assault, period. And this is a very recent law that has been widely discussed and reported in media, so there is no chance that he didn’t know the legal consequences of his acts. He simply believed that his position of power would be enough to evade the legal consequences.

    • Please show me where Spanish criminal code defines what constitutes a kiss.

      The law doesn’t even define sexual assault beyond “unwanted sexual conduct”. And again, a kiss is not inherently sexual.

      Calling this sexual assault doesn’t help anyone, and actively harms victims of actual sexual violence.

      • @triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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        12 years ago

        Calling this sexual assault doesn’t help anyone, and actively harms victims of actual sexual violence.

        what “actively harms victims of sexual violence” is gatekeeping the definition of it, and normalising nonconsensual intimate physical acts. maybe spend some time researching the “real rape” myth, and its impact on reporting, investigation, and conviction rates.