Shakira and Piqué seal their separation agreement in Barcelona before the judge

The City of Justice, the mammoth complex that houses Barcelona's courts, has two access doors.

When a public figure comes to testify or to be judged, the press must stand at one or the other entrance, which gives the famous person at least a chance to avoid the

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But when the occasion requires it, the press redoubles its efforts: a reporter, a photographer and a cameraman on each side.

This is what happened this Thursday with Gerard Piqué and Shakira, who attended their appointment to ratify the separation agreement before the civil court.

Shakira has appeared dressed in black and wearing sunglasses on Avenida del Carrilet, on the L'Hospitalet side.

Piqué, with a cap and equally serious countenance, by the most majestic entrance, that of the Gran Vía, on the Barcelona side.

They have not crossed paths before the cameras and have only seen each other in the privacy of court of first instance and family number 18 in Barcelona, ​​where they have signed the already agreed clauses of the separation.

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Almost a month ago, the Colombian artist and the former Barça soccer player announced that they had reached an agreement on their separation.

The pact includes that Shakira will go to live in Miami (Florida, USA) with the couple's two children, Sasha, 11, and Milan, nine.

Piqué will be able to go to see them as many times as she wants and the expenses of these trips will be borne by both of them, according to the terms of the agreement that transcended in their day.

"We have signed an agreement that guarantees the well-being of our children and that will be ratified in court, as part of a merely formal procedure," both said in a brief statement.

“Our sole objective is to provide them with the greatest security and protection, and we trust that their privacy will be respected.

That mere procedure has arrived this Thursday and had to be formalized personally.

The arrival of Shakira and Piqué has aroused enormous expectations also among officials and legal operators.

Half an hour after entering the City of Justice, they left it, each one on its side and without paying attention to the press that kept the two exits under control.

Gerard Piqué leaving the Court of First Instance and Family number 18 of Barcelona after ratifying the separation request and the agreement on the custody of his children, on December 1, 2022.David Oller (Europa Press)

Shakira, 45, and Piqué, 35, announced their separation in early June 2022, after more than a decade of relationship.

“We are sorry to confirm that we are separating.

For the well-being of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask for respect for privacy.

Thank you for your understanding ”, read her brief statement, of just 26 words, then.

They met shortly before the World Cup in South Africa, held in the summer of 2010, where she performed and he was proclaimed the winner with the Spanish team.

Two years after starting their relationship, in September 2012, the couple announced their first pregnancy.

Their first child, a boy named Milan, was born in January 2013. Just two years later, Sasha, their second child, arrived.

After their breakup, the protagonists have barely wanted to make statements on this matter.

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last September, where he said that they had to rethink their careers in pursuit of their relationship and their family.

“Either he left his contract with Barcelona and moved to the United States with me, where my career is, or I would have to do that in his place.

And so, one of the two had to make that effort and that sacrifice.

And I did it.

I put my career on the back burner and came to Spain to support him so he could play football and win trophies.

And it was an act of love, ”he recounted.

But their environments have also made it clear that both treat each other with the utmost respect.

"Regardless of how things ended or how Gerard and I feel as an ex-partner, he is the father of my children," Shakira said in that same interview.