The picturesque hunger strike of Ángeles Béjar, mother of Luis Rubiales, locked up in the little church of the Divina Pastora, ended this Wednesday definitively in the least pleasant way for the journalists who had been waiting for three days –some, with their nights– waiting for the outcome. The "official" version was given by the parish priest of Divina Pastora, visibly overwhelmed by events. First he tried a diagnosis, "nervous breakdown" and then he gave other details: due to the heat and humidity, during the afternoon to Ángeles Béjar – in such delicate health that he began to feel bad on Monday when he had barely been on strike for six hours from hunger– his legs had begun to swell and he felt dizzy from the heat –the temperature, these days, is around 30ºC on the tropical coast of Granada, but with the humidity, the thermal sensation is suffocating– and despite a copious intake of water did not improve. As the afternoon progressed, the parish priest explained, she has been feeling worse and she "got very nervous." She spoke on the phone with her son Luis Rubiales – always, according to the ecclesiastic's account – who was the one who advised taking her to the hospital emergency room. The priest, to questions from the press, ruled out that the woman would return to continue her hunger strike in the temple once she recovers from the collapse she suffered this Wednesday.
Excused from their surveillance, but also frustrated, were the journalists, especially the television ones, who were unable to capture images of the end of this strange mother-child farce produced by the reputational crisis of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. In fact, once they had recovered from the setback at work, they began to complain that perhaps they had –we had– been manipulated by a well-designed distraction operation to prevent images of Ángeles Béjar's resignation from being captured from a confinement that barely achieved the adhesion of a a handful of relatives and friends: the call for a few words from Ángeles Béjar at the door of the temple at 7:15 p.m. meant that, almost twenty minutes before, the journalists, who tend to disperse around the surroundings during long waits, were concentrated and formed like an army about to go on the offensive. The door of the temple opened almost half an hour later, but Ángeles Béjar did not come out but rather the preacher to say that she had not been there for a while. He got out from behind and went to the emergency room in the quietest ambulance on record.
