Even a massive French estate with round the clock security isn’t giving Angelina and Brad breathing room. Yesterday, the family’s security found camouflaged paparazzi trespassing on the chateau’s grounds. Of course both sides give widely different stories.
Freelance photographer Luc Goursolas said he broke a guard’s finger and bit another until he bled, and that they hit him with a walkie-talkie, punched and kicked him, leaving a head wound that required three stitches.
“I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I had HIV so they would stop hitting me,” Goursolas told The Associated Press on Friday.
Tony Webb, head of security at the Miraval estate, said Goursolas went “berserk” without provocation and denied that his guards punched the photographer.
Webb says the family may have to move because for the media frenzy. “If they get invasion of their privacy like this then they would have no option, and they would have to go somewhere where the laws are upheld a bit better,” Webb said.
Complaints were filed all around though it appears that local police aren’t taking the situation seriously.
Police spokesperson Capt. Olivia Poupot said, “This kind of thing is really not the type of problem that interests us,” she said. “There are, in my opinion, far more important things than paparazzi taking photos of a glamour couple.”
I get Capt Olivia’s point of view. Angelina and Brad have resources and a healthy happy family. In her opinion, they chose this life and so thems the breaks. To a certain extent she’s right. Angelina and Brad have chosen a profession that brings attention to themselves and their family. I think they completely understand that. What they don’t understand is someone coming sitting for hours, in camouflage to get pictures of their premature children. These photogs aren’t murderers and they shouldn’t be treated as such but they should be held accountable.
