They report that Shakira’s companions “pressured and intimidated” a photographer in Spain

Spain. A Spanish association of photojournalists showed this Saturday its revulsion for an incident in which one of these professionals was “intimidated” by companions of the Colombian singer Shakira and his partner, the Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, Whom he photographed while surfing.

In a statement, the Association of Cantabrian Photojournalists (APFC) explains that the events took place last Thursday, when the photographer, a contributor to the Diario Montañés, had just taken pictures of both in wetsuits and the tables of Surfing in the water in Oyambre, Cantabria, northern Spain.

At the time he was “approached” and “surrounded” by a “group of more than eight individuals”, who “reprimanded, pressured and intimidated” him.

He adds that, “At Piqué’s urging,” they took out his camera and tried to erase the photographs. But they did not succeed, as the media quoted today published the images on both the cover and inside pages.

“It is not possible to allow a journalist in the exercise of his work to be attacked with impunity in this way, especially when he was also in a public space, and the right to assist a professional journalist is perfectly regulated. carry out your task “, Underlines the APFC, to which the photographer belongs.

He also points out that in addition to having “witnesses in the area” who witnessed the incident, the photojournalist called on security forces to “take note of the events.”