Miguel Bosé was the victim of an armed robbery in the Rancho San Francisco neighborhood, a high-security neighborhood and luxury homes in the Mayor’s Office of Álvaro Obregón in Mexico City. According to a message published on his Instagram account on Monday, the singer was there with his two children at 8am last Friday, August 18, when a squad of ten armed men broke into his home. “They attacked us, tying up my children, the house staff and me for more than two hours,” Bosé wrote. Authorities in the capital are investigating how ten armed people got into a closed and highly secured room housing 60 million pesos ($4.1 million) of property.
Despite the robbery, Bosé assured in his message that everyone is fine. “My children behaved like two brave men,” the singer reported. The thieves locked her and the rest of the household staff (two attendants and one maid) in a room. In the next two hours, the thieves had time to search the house without anyone being able to react to prevent the robbery. They took jewelry, lots of cash, and the blue Chevrolet Suburban truck that the famous singer was driving in, which they used to get out of the high-security section.
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They put everything they had in the house there. To escape, according to Mexican entertainment journalist Gustavo Adolfo Infante, the commando got into the truck and forced Bosé’s usual driver to take them out of the subdivision. They had everything “very well thought out and meticulous, to make it short,” assured the singer. “It was all very tense, delicate and uncomfortable.” The famous singer wanted to thank for the support received: “Thank you everyone for the constant concern but rest assured. To my urbanization neighbors who arrived first, a thousand thanks from the bottom of my heart.”
Mexico City’s Attorney’s Office assures this newspaper that they “still have nothing to say” and will certainly provide information on the subject this afternoon. The Minister for Citizen Security in the capital has not given any information in this regard either. Sources close to the investigation have assured this newspaper that it took security personnel outside the subdivision 35 minutes to let the police in after receiving an emergency call from a neighbour. These private urbanizations around Mexico City are so jealous of their security that in many cases even the capital’s own authorities have trouble gaining entry.
Miguel Bosé moved to Mexico in 2018, two months after being on the Spanish Treasury’s black list of defaulters, to whom he owed 1.8 million euros at the time (almost the same amount in dollars at the current exchange rate). It was then that the singer changed his place of residence and sent his children to a private school in the capital. Diego and Tadeo are barely 12 years old and he has always tried to protect them from the limelight, hence the decision to move to Mexico and an area with high purchasing power and private security, although sometimes these barriers are not enough for thieves.
Even the most opulent areas of the capital are targets of robberies and muggings, reflecting the circles of poverty that still surround Latin America’s largest city. In late June, four robbers armed with guns, sledgehammers and machetes robbed a jewelry store in the Antara shopping center, a space full of luxury shops in Polanco, one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods. Security guards couldn’t help but watch as the thieves smashed the jewelry store’s glass into pieces. Despite the security challenges the capital is facing, Bosé assured that this incident will not prompt him to leave Mexico City: “And while you speculate that I will leave Mexico, I am very sorry to disappoint you “Here I am and here I will stay, in the most hospitable country in the world.”
With information from Georgina Zerega.
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