Valencia County Court She eventually signed with rapper Daddy Yankee, and managed to run a hotel in the capital of Túria where the Puerto Rican singer was staying. During their tour in August 2018He is legally responsible for providing it to thieves. theft of jewelry valued at more than one million US dollars. Thus it partially predicts the sentence was appealed The company that owns the Hotel Meliá València, which dismissed the case of the well-known music producer, Paid $908,950 compensation to Daddy Yankee and your partner.
In sentencing, the thief caught on security cameras said, ““I could not have committed the burglary if I had not had the invaluable cooperation of the defendant, which was overlooked.”. In fact, as mentioned before Lift-EMVFrom the Prensa Ibérica group, hotel staff gave copies of the keys to two rooms to gang members who allegedly stole the jewelry and were never identified. He even opened the safe “without requiring reliable identification”Where the rapper left two watches, three gold chains, a cross, four bracelets, three rings and a pair of diamond earrings.
appealed sentence
In the appealed decision, it was claimed that “the previous existence of jewelery and money in the hotel was not proven.” And this hotelier’s responsibility This occurs when “the theft is of objects commonly used by a traveller, and not of jewels of extraordinary value whose entry was not reported to the hotel.”
He was not warned at the establishment that he was not responsible for the valuables he kept in the box.
HE lawyer Miguel Ángel Sampedro He managed to eliminate such allegations in his appeal, and the Eighth Chamber of the Provincial Court reinterpreted the article of the Civil Code in an updated way “according to the social reality of our age”, which includes: Responsibility of “fondistas and innkeepers”“a reality that has become obsolete today because of the wide variety of establishments that offer not only food and beds.”
Therefore, the magistrate judge ruled that the plaintiffs (Daddy, her husband, and her brother-in-law) “stayed in a modern four-star hotel where their rooms were equipped with a safety deposit box, a special security measure for customers’ valuables and belongings”. He also goes on to claim that the fact that customers use this anti-theft device to leave their jewelry and valuables there instead of leaving them on the table in any way already implies that the customer is stealing. “comply with the security measures offered by the hotel”, without the need to inform anyone about what is deposited there. Additionally, the decision asks to whom the existence of the jewelery should be reported in this case; To the manager, the receptionist, any employee?
Likewise, there is no evidence that the singer reserved the 28th floor of the mentioned hotel entirely for herself and her entire team of friends when registering. Between 5 – 8 August 2018 (During the tour that took him to perform in Gandia) he was never given any warning that the hotel would not be responsible for objects not entrusted to him, nor were instructions given regarding the safekeeping of valuables. There was no writing on the safe stating that the business was not responsible for the items stored there.
The value of what was stolen
Regarding the content of what was stolen, the sentence does not question the existence and value of the jewelery seen in the photographs; some of these were often worn by the singer in her performances. “Given the proven data, it should not surprise us that they carry such abundance of gold and precious stones.” “Couples’ taste in adorning themselves with eye-catching and expensive jewelery and their high economic level”, clarifies the judge. The impartial evaluation of the jewelery is done by expert companies before the theft. However, since the value of the chain, which was worth 142 thousand 700 dollars in the case, could not be proven, the compensation dropped to 908 thousand 905 dollars.
What is finally The case of the brother-in-law who refused the punishment The singer claimed that $10,000 worth of gold cord and $42,000 worth of cash were stolen. In your case, the hotel is not responsible for such items being left just like that. backpack on the floor of the room. The sentence’s reproach that he did not take more care to put her in a safer place.