A VALENCIA lodge has been ordered to pay nearly a million US {dollars} in compensation to the rapper Daddy Yankee after he was robbed of his jewelry in August 2018.
The singer’s lawyer appealed to the Valencia Provincial Court docket after an earlier ruling from a decrease court docket exonerated the Melia Valencia Lodge from making any cost.
Daddy Yankee- greatest identified for his worldwide hit Despacito- was performing on the Latin Fest Competition in Gandia however alongside along with his entourage they stayed over 70 kilometres away in Valencia.
The court docket ruling stated Daddy Yankee and his spouse stayed in a room on the Melia Valencia and that the singer, ‘as a part of his public and inventive picture, travels with a big quantity of jewelry that enhances his look throughout concert events, which he retains in a room secure that the lodge makes accessible to its visitors’.
The a number of Latin Grammy award successful star got here with two watches, three chains, a cross, 4 bracelets, three rings and a pair of diamond earrings.
Simply after 5.00am on August 6, an unknown individual claiming to be Daddy Yankee appeared on the reception desk.
He requested for duplicates of room key playing cards, absolutely conscious that the performer and his workforce weren’t on the lodge.
Employees gave him the playing cards with none form of id verify and even obtained them to open the secure with the entire jewelry inside, which he took together with an unspecified sum of money.
The wrongdoer has by no means been caught.
A decrease court docket threw out Daddy Yankee’s declare on the premise that he couldn’t show what objects have been stolen.
The Provincial Court docket referred to sections 1783 and 1784 of the Civil Code relationship again to the nineteenth century which states that ‘results introduced by travellers to inns are thought of as essential deposits and that innkeepers are responsible for them as long as they’re made conscious upfront’.
The bench stated {that a} trendy four-star lodge with safety measures falls into the ‘inn’ class and was due to this fact responsible for Daddy Yankee’s losses.
He was awarded $908,950 however the Melia lodge group could make an attraction earlier than the Valencian Supreme Court docket.
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