Ana Belén Ecube, the friend of Beautiful Jenni who accompanied the footballer in the celebration in Ibiza of the title of World Champions in August 2023 has assured the “Rubiales” case that the then Marketing responsible for the Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) Rubén Rivera and the sports director From the male selection Albert Luque pressed the international in a “quite hostile” environment to try to redirect the controversy for the kiss of Luis Rubiales, given his insistence to deny that he was spoiled.
As the witness has reported to questions from the Lieutenant Prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Durántez, Luque – for whom he claims a sentence of the year and a half of prison for a crime of coercion, the same one that he requests for Rivera – he came to ensure: “If you help us, you know that Luis returns the favors very well and will not miss work or you or Jenni”. But she refused to intermediate so that her friend talked to the sports director, who had moved to Ibiza and claimed beautiful to speak “two minutes.” But it was Ecube who went down to the hotel reception to talk to him, to try to “protect” the footballer, already in those moments quite overwhelmed. “Do not be wrong with me, that I have a job,” he replied bluntly as he said. And he refused round because, he said, he thought he “sell my soul to the devil.”
During the session, in the room the messages that Albert Luque sent to Ana Ecube have been exhibited, counter because the footballer refused to talk to him, who had moved to Ibiz The kiss was spoiled. “It seems so unfair, so unfair, what is doing Luis (Rubiales), “he wrote according to those messages, in which he describes as “Human Bajeza” Jenni’s attitude towards the then president of the RFEF, which seemed like “little empathy and humanity.”
“A simple gesture to take a person the greatest brown of his life. Knowing that there is bad faith climbing the car to kill him. So unfair,” he lamented on those dates sports director of the male soccer team, which made her patent her feelings towards beautiful: “I just wish you in life that returns what you are doing”convinced that time gives each one, he warned him, “what he deserves.”
In those WhatsApp messages, Luque also assured Ana Ecube that he had no problem talking to her when she wanted, but sent a message to beautiful: “Tell Jenni on me that this is two days and that Solita Solita will be found later And I, who am not to rejoice the evil of anyone, this time I will be happy for the first time in my life. “” It is the first time I have seen a huge injustice of a heart without a heart, “he insis tattoo? But who do you think it’s you, girl? Time. Each will put it in their place. “
“I was chemically and physically exhausted”
The witness-who Judge José Manuel Clemente Fernández-Prieto has initially confused: “Are you a member of the football team?-He explained that he traveled to Ibiza with the national team” as a friend of Jennifer Hermoso. ” More arriving at the hotel, he recalled, Rubén Rivera “approached Jenni and told her that they were trying to contact her. He insisted several times. “” Jenni, please, want He had a drummer on his mobile and Rivera offered to load it, to what beautiful.
“It was an awkward moment because she was very insistent. She no longer knew how to tell her not to leave her alone,” he said. And although in the end, he added, he was willing to speak, “he refused” what they asked. “It was encouraged mood and physically.” “The environment in Ibiza was quite hostile,” he stressed.
Ecube has assured that he initially offered his help to Rivera, until he saw that his attitude “was not to help, but to bother Jenni.” “There I regretted, because I saw that at no time had I intended to benefit my friend, but to harm her.”
Subsequently, he added, in the place to which they moved to take something and see the sunset, those pressures were redoubled. “Rivera insisted again. I was in the hammock with her. I asked her to talk to him.” “No, Rubén, please, I’m resting,” the footballer was denied again. But he “went and went.” “In a moment Jenni began to cry because the situation surpassed him.”
The witness has affirmed that at that time Rivera was aware that Albert Luque “had started writing to Jenni to tell her that she was in Ibiza and that if she had two minutes they could speak”, so the effort of the then Marketing responsible was that Access to see himself with Luque. “Rubén asked me several times to try to convince Jenni to talk to Albert”, with whom he has admitted “had a cordial relationship.”
Ecube decided to go down to receipt to talk to Luque, although her friend asked her not to do so. “Stop talking to them please, he knows me badly that they are bothering you. You’re not for that,” he transferred. “I was a crest, I hardly talked,” he recalled, although he is “a very happy person.”
“I’m going to go down, I’m talking to him and we won time for them to leave you alone,” Ecube decided. Because? “I saw that they didn’t stop, and they didn’t stop. I wanted to protect her.”
Rivera accompanied him to reception. “At first it was a friendly tone,” he said. “Isn’t Jenni going to go down?” Lre asked Luque. And when the refusal is in response, he said, always according to his version of the facts: “I come as a friend.” “If you were your friend, you would understand that you need to rest and respect your space,” she replied. “Now it’s not the time to talk to her.”
Ecube has pointed out that he reproached Luque for the management of the matter by the RFEF. “We are all here for your fault, because if Rubiales asks for forgiveness after the statement, the intensity of this situation goes down,” he showed him. “You are all very nervous, because you know that if Rubiales falls, you all go to the street.” To which Luque points out, he replied that he was “very quiet” because he belonged to the organization chart of the male team. “I have a contract until after the World Cup.”
The witness has assured that she acted in this way because “she did not stop seeing her friend” and decided accordingly “that they bother me, instead of her.”