Rubiales vs. the algorithm of X. Berlanga, Almodóvar, Jenni, FIFA, UEFA, the Prosecutor's Office... These are some of the thousand and one twisted ways to reach the kiss-gate from tweet to tweet. We have even encountered the Church. The grotesque Rubiales adds up and continues nine days later with the mother of the suspended president of the Spanish soccer federation locking herself in the church of the Divina Pastora de Motril on a hunger strike. Reading it on the BBC or Der Spiegel website adds intensity to the blush caused by the case on the front page of The Financial Times.
Ángeles Béjar, the new version of mother courage, was already at the federation assembly last week with her husband and three granddaughters. Those “true feminist” girls that she has miraculously protected despite her father's exhibitionism. The woman must have thought that the applause from the federation corralito was sincere or gratuitous, something that Rubiales has made impossible in her mandate; And now, far from thinking that her son's behavior is, to say the least, questionable, she appeals to the highest divine authorities.
The parish priest of Divina Pastora has a problem and the brotherhood, with its little stand at the door, has been blessed. A horde of journalists willing to buy Christmas lottery...
The woman asks for understanding "as a mother" and cousin Vanessa, also in Motril, stands in front of the microphones to ask Jenni Hermoso "to tell the truth." Rubiales has put his families, blood and federation, to play in an incomprehensible battle against the 21st century.
Looking elsewhere is the surprising recipe of compulsive commentators on Twitter such as Isabel Díaz Ayuso or José Luís Almeida. When the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, pronounces himself in favor of Hermoso, the president of Madrid wonders why the international press does not talk about the "boycott" of the Vuelta by the independentistas "partners" of Pedro Sánchez. The media right is capable of pedaling even further and the equation is indigestible: Rubiales, the Catalan independentistas and ETA.
Faced with the confinements, the noise and the resounding silences, the journalist Paloma del Río competes with the Rubiales clan in their Twitter farewell and defeats them in dignity. “Would you like it done to your daughter?” she snapped at a boss who put his hand on her. She says goodbye after 37 years of artistic broadcasts with a pavilion shouting Paloooooma, Paloooooma. And Rubiales still doesn't know why they don't shout her name.
