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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    1 year 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.

    • too_high_for_this@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        You should join Luis Rubiales’ defense 🤷‍♂️

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

        How so? This kind of argument doesn’t make sense to me - robbing a house is robbery, robbing a bank is still robbery. Unaliving an individual with a knife is murder, and unaliving an invididual by dangerous driving is still murder.

        Each crime is looked at on a case by case basis in an ideal scenario - having the definition of one thing the same as another can not inherently harm victims affected by a higher severity of an identically named crime IMO

          • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            I’ll take the bait because why not 🤭

            Sexual assault is not just rape, that kind of thinking is really narrow minded in my opinion. The definition varies depending on where you live - this can include groping, slapping another’s bottom, ogling, catcalling, rape, and more.

            Being excited isn’t a valid reason to cross someone’s personal boundaries IMO. There is never a valid reason to cross someone’s boundaries unless you’re exempt, on those kind of friendly terms with them

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              1 year ago

              It’s not sexual assault, people kiss one another all the time in sports during climactic moments, it’s not a big deal and I stand with the coach here.