Psychologist Laura Redondo analyzes Jenni Hermoso’s video
With the purpose of discredit the player, a few agitators from the extreme right, following the example of Alvise Pérez, have spread the videos in which Jenni Hermoso and the rest of the soccer players celebrate the World Cup and, specifically, one, on the bus, where Hermoso explains to her teammates what had happened with Rubiales. Rubiales’ defense believes that this video can help him reduce a possible sentence; but the truth is that The video does not show anything that was not known until now. In this context, the legal and forensic psychologist Laura Redondo has decided to analyze the case, at the request of her followers.
► Time: The video was recorded just after the kiss at the medal ceremony. “At times close to the event there is likely to be shock,” she says.
► Social contrast: asks for feedback from her colleagues, “which shows impact and wanting to contrast what has happened”
► Emotional state: Contrary to what is usually thought, Redondo explains that when the “contrast” or the “revelation” occurs (the moment in which what has happened is told) it is usually done “in a relaxed way”. “Jenni is laughing in an atmosphere of celebration,” he notes.
In all this context, Redondo points out that in many attacks and other traumatic events, at first you may not focus or identify exactly what it is about. “When time passes and if you have support you become aware and it is told,” he points out. He also explains that the natural “tendency” after what happened is usually to “make light of the matter, downplay its importance, make jokes…” And that, he emphasizes. “does not take away gravity to what has been lived nor gives consent”.
Likewise, he summarizes that in the bus video “adaptive and common patterns are presented” in the victims, although he does assure that what there is not is “a profile of a perfect victim who does not smile or live longer, because it does not exist, it is a myth social,” he says.
