Columbian pop singer Shakira has claimed that she was the victim of an attack by two wild boar in a park in Barcelona.
The 44-year-old hitmaker claims the animals ‘attacked and robbed’ her as she walked through the park with her eight-year-old son Milan.
The star says the two boar made off with her handbag containing her mobile phone and took it into the woods, before she was able to wrangle it back.
Speaking in her native Spanish, Shakira took to Instagram to share a video of her torn and muddied bag as she explained what happened.
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“Look at how two wild boar which attacked me in the park have left my bag,” she says.
“They have attacked me, they have shattered everything and they were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it. In the end they left the bag because I confronted them.”
She then adds as her son, who she shares with Spanish footballer Gerard Pique, walks off in the background: “Milan tell the truth. Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.”
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Neither Shakira nor her son are thought to have been injured by the incident, if a little shaken.
It comes as the singer, real name Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is currently facing trial for tax fraud.
A Spanish judge ruled in July there was “sufficient evidence” to try her for evading more than £12 million in taxes during the years 2012 and 2014.
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Shakira is expected to insist she has done nothing wrong if she does not reach a last-minute deal with state prosecutors and has to take the stand.
In 2019 she appeared in court to over allegations that she avoided paying €14.5 million in taxes.
She said she was up-to-date with her taxes, had given her full cooperation to the investigation and had no outstanding debts with the tax authorities.
However, prosecutors argued that she avoided taxes by claiming to live in the Bahamas when she was resident in Catalonia.
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