30th September, 2021
Colombian-Lebanese pop star Shakira has revealed how she was accosted by two wild boars, in a Barcelona Park.
The pigs reportedly made off with her handbag, which contained her phone.
She told the story in a series of viral Instagram stories Wednesday.
“They’ve destroyed everything,” fumed the 44-year-old Grammy-winner of the pilfering pigs.
The attack was in the presence of her 8-year-old son Milan Pique Mebarak.
Shakira — whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll — didn’t disclose when the incident occurred.
“Look at how two wild boar which attacked me in the park have left my bag,” lamented the “She Wolf” songstress to her 70.7 million ‘Gram followers.
“They were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it,” she said.
Holding the now recovered but torn bag towards the camera, she said: “Look at how two wild boar which attacked me in the park have left my bag.”
“They were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it,” the singer continued. “They’ve destroyed everything.”
She then turned to her son, whose father is the Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, and said: “Milan tell the truth. Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.”
Shakira is the latest victim of the increasingly aggressive hogs which have invaded the Catalan capital in recent years.
In 2016, Spanish police received 1,187 phone calls about wild hogs attacking dogs, plundering cat-feeders, holding up traffic and running into cars in the city.
In 2013, one city police officer attempted to take charge of the problem himself and shot at a boar with his service revolver, but missed and hit his partner instead.
From BBC and New York Post