As mother ends hunger strike in support of son, uncle says nephew’s World Cup behaviour was ‘shameful’
The mother of the embattled Spanish football chief, Luis Rubiales, has ended her hunger strike three days after she shut herself into a church in southern Spain, as a series of interviews with Rubiales’s uncle hinted at a split in how the family views the unsolicited kiss by Rubiales after the Women’s World Cup final.
“indefinitely, day and night” in a church as she began a hunger strike over what she described as the “inhumane and bloodthirsty” persecution of her son.Jenni Hermoso by the head, pulled her towards him and planted a kiss on her lips during the World Cup medal ceremony. After initially dismissing those behind the mounting outrage as “idiots and stupid people”, Rubiales sought to portray the kiss as consensual.that the situation had left her feeling “vulnerable and a victim of aggression”.
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