Exclusive | The secret and nocturnal meeting of Shakira and her lawyers at her house in Barcelona

Shakira She has been in Spain for a week now and has visited Madrid, Seville and now Barcelona, ​​where she is already focused on his defense against the Treasury three days before the trial begins.

Singer landed in Madrid last Saturday, accompanied by her children, her brother Tonino, her sister-in-law and her well-known assistant, Lili Melgar. They took advantage of their short stay in the capital to visit the city incognito. They did not hesitate to walk around the well-known El Retiro Park nor in going to see the Puerta de Alcalá, where a photograph was taken.

They stayed in a luxurious hotel where they were welcomed to their room with a selection of gourmet sweets, including macarons, carrot cake, lemon pie and truffle coulant. They stayed two nights, until Monday morning, when the Colombian woman and her companions boarded a private jet at the Madrid airport bound for Seville.

The Barranquilla native has spent five days in Seville, also staying in a luxurious hotel where hundreds of people crowded the street waiting to see the singer despite the fact that Shakira has done everything possible to go unnoticed and be able to attend. to their work commitments without any discomfort. A week of private parties, side events, press conferences and VIP meetings has marked the agenda of numerous well-known faces who have been in Seville. But without any doubt Shakira has been one of the great stars awarded at the Latin Grammys, celebrated for the first time in Spain.

Gerard Piqué’s ex left the Andalusian city on Friday around four in the afternoon. He took a private jet again to Barcelona and she did everything possible so that no media saw her leaving Seville. At five thirty in the afternoon, the singer arrived at the Barcelona airport, where she tried to hide, but it was not possible. Tonino and Shakira’s secretary were the first to leave and load all the suitcases into a large taxi.

The artist’s brother got in as co-pilot and went to the house in Esplugues de Llobregat. Twenty minutes later, the singer came out with her children and, surrounded by her workers, they got into a black van that was waiting for them at the door of the terminal. They went straight to the house where Shakira has been living with the former Barça soccer player. after a while Gerard Piqué appeared and entered the garage with his car to pick up his children, whom I had not seen for several weeks. Minutes later she took them away, also coinciding with the departure by car of the children’s paternal grandparents, Montserrat and Joan.

Vanitatis has been able to learn exclusively that The first thing Shakira did as soon as she arrived in Barcelona was to contact her lawyers and meet them at the house.. It was last night when, despite the fact that she was tired and exhausted, as Tonino assured this medium, the lawyer Pau Molins and his team arrived by car and directly accessed the garage of the house.

Two hours of meeting, in which Shakira preferred to be alone, without her brother or her children or her assistants, have served to prepare part of that defense that we will know next Monday at ten in the morning, when the media trial begins. A case in which they demand a fine of 23.8 million euros and in which the Prosecutor’s Office asks him for eight years and two months in prison for, supposedly, having defrauded the Treasury of 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014.

A long and massive trial is expected that will last until December 14 and will include 117 witnesses, among whom there are well-known faces such as the Estopa brothers, the Maná singer, Fernando Olvera, or the accused’s ex-partner, Antonio de la Rúa.

Shakira She has been in Spain for a week now and has visited Madrid, Seville and now Barcelona, ​​where she is already focused on his defense against the Treasury three days before the trial begins.