at a church in Motril, Granada, Spain. Photograph: Alba Feixas/EPA
More than a week after the world watched Luis Rubiales plant an unsolicited kiss on forward Jenni Hermoso, the seaside city of Motril woke up to find graffiti gracing its sports centre. “Prison for Rubiales,” read one message scrawled on the front entrance. “We’re with Jenni,” read another.
The graffiti soon became the backdrop for television crews as they descended on the city as news broke that the embattled football chief’s mother, Ángeles Béjar, had shut herself into a 19th century church and declared she was on hunger strike over the “unwarranted, inhumane and bloodthirsty hunt” of her son.
