Luis Rubiales’ mother was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday on the third day of her hunger strike. She was campaigning against the suspension of her son, Spanish football boss, who forcibly kissed a player during Spain’s world title.
Angeles Bejar – who had taken refuge since Monday in the Divina Pastora church in Motril in southern Spain to protest against the “harassment” to which she said her son was subjected – was evacuated on Wednesday after midday by the emergency services which took her to the hospital, announced to the press Antonio Rodríguez, the parish priest, on the forecourt of the church.
“I have to report to you that she had a seizure,” he said, without giving further details about the nature of the seizure. “We had to rush him to the hospital. She’s gone,” the priest explained, adding that Angeles Bejar was “tired, with a lot of problems and not just emotionally.”
Luis Rubiales’ mother promised to stay locked up in this church until Jenni Hermoso, the player who was surprised on the mouth by her son, “tells the truth” about what happened, according to her niece Vanessa Ruiz Bejar, the cousin of Luis Rubiales.
“This harassment is not fair. His mother, who is very religious, found refuge with God. She has started a hunger strike and does not want to leave the church,” she said Monday on the threshold of the Divina Pastora church in Motril, the city where Luis Rubiales grew up. Reached by AFP, the Motril hospital did not confirm that she had been admitted among the patients.
