Why is the #RespectShakira trending?

On March 7, thousands of people came to the defense of the Colombian singer Shakira after disgusting images went viral.

This Wednesday night, FC Barcelona’s football/soccer team will face-off against Paris Saint-Germain F.C in France.

Shakira’s long-term partner, Gerard Pique, has played for the Spanish team for many years now, and even though he won’t be playing in this match due to a knee injury, PSG’s fans still decided to humiliate and intimidate him and his team.

And in order to achieve this, they did something despicable.

They were pictured holding this banner on International Women’s Day:

This banner is referencing a town on the Spanish-French border called La Jonquera that is famous for prostitution and its brothels. Obviously, they’re saying that’s where she belongs.

A PSG spokesperson said that they “strongly and unambiguously condemn this type of ridiculous and totally inappropriate provocation”.

When her fans went to her defense some of them noticed that this wasn’t the first time that fans of a team playing against Barcelona have targeted her in inappropriate ways. In fact, there have been quite a few times.

Like the time Real Madrid fans passed around a blow-up doll with her name written on it:

And the time another team’s fans used a banner with “Shakira belongs to all” written on it:

And this one saying that ”Everything started with you, Antonio de la Rúa”, whom she dated from 2000 till 2010.

As a response to all this, her fans decided to make the #RespectShakira trend on Twitter.

She hasn’t addressed this yet, only revealing that her latest song featuring the Black Eyed Peas is number one on the US Latin billboard.

I guess that her continuous success is like a slap in the face of those PSG’s fans.

Source: That Hollywood Guy