A hotel will have to compensate Daddy Yankee for a robbery that occurred on August 6, 2018 in Valencia. The Meliá hotel is going to have to pay him almost a million euros (908,950 US dollars) to the singer for giving him the key card from the room to the thief and help him open the safe without checking his ID and seeing if he was a member of his team.

The singer, who was doing the ‘Dura’ tour in Spain, left the Meliá hotel in Valencia at 5:00 p.m. and left all his belongings. jewelry kept in the safe. Before, around 5:00 in the morning, a man asked at the hotel reception for a duplicate room key cards by Daddy Yankee; of his, which he shared with his partner, and that of his brother-in-law.

The person at the reception gave it to him without asking for any identification and without checking if he was a member of the artist’s team. In the afternoon, when the singer had left with his team, another man went up to the 28th floor of the hotel to carry out the robbery.

In the images from the hotel’s security cameras you can see how he goes up and without hesitation heads to the room 2,805. Open the door with the duplicate and enter the room. After about ten minutes and after not being able to open the safe He asks a hotel worker for help, who after a few minutes opens the safe. Once opened, the worker leaves, and the thief steals all the jewelry that the singer had deposited there.

A millionaire robbery

The thief took two watches, three chains, a cross, four bracelets, three rings and a pair of diamond earrings whose value amounts to 1,051,650 US dollars. Immediately afterwards, the thief left the room and went right into the room opposite, room 2,804, where the reggaeton player’s brother-in-law was staying. From there, according to the complaint, he took a 14-karat gold cord weighing 401.1 grams, valued at 19,600 US dollars and 4,200 euros in cash.

After committing the robbery, in just 30 minutes, the thief calmly walks towards the elevator. In the images, you can see how he presses the button to call him, looks at his cell phone sometimes, adjusts his pants and, with some nervousness, touches his face. Normal, considering that he has just looted a safe and that he carries valuable jewelry inside his backpack. in more than one million euros.

I would not have been able to without the collaboration

The singer reported the theft in 2018 and now, after an appeal, he has managed to get the Provincial Court of Valencia to agree with him. They condemn the hotel to pay him 908,950 US dollars for the theft of his jewelry. The sentence considers that the thief “I couldn’t have commit the theft if he had not had the invaluable although “ignored collaboration of the defendant”since its staff was the one who provided the copy of the keys to the two rooms and opened a safe without requiring reliable identification.

“Unconsciously, but with serious guilt,” explains Daddy Yankee’s lawyer, Miguel Ángel Sampedro. “It is known that the singer wears jewelry, they rented rooms on an entire floor and it was known that they had everything they always wear at concerts, where he displays a series of highly valuable jewelry as his personal image. Nobody He notified him at the hotel so that put the jewelry in a different box to the one I already had in the room,” he says.

And Daddy Yankee, he explains, used the room’s safe, trusting that his jewelry was safe there. “Hotels have safe deposit boxes and that is part of the hotel’s security. Daddy Yankee used the hotel’s security correctly and it was broken by the hotel itself.”

What the ruling does reject is the lawsuit by the singer’s brother-in-law, who claimed the value of the stolen gold cord. In his case, the court considers, the hotel is not responsible because he simply left the belongings in a backpack on the floor of the room. And they reproach her for not having taken greater care to have put objects of such value in a safer place.