Jolie's bodyguards arrested in India

News Australia ^ | 17 Nov 2006 | News Australia

[CarrotAndStick]

THREE of Angelina Jolie's bodyguards were arrested by Indian police today following a scuffle with parents at a Mumbai Islamic private school during a movie shoot, police said.

Jolie, accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt and their three children, is in India for a month to film scenes for A Mighty Heart, a film about US journalist Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002.

“We have arrested three of her bodyguards. They may be produced before a local court after police interrogation,” deputy police commissioner Brijesh Singh said.

Singh said the bodyguards were arrested on charges of “threatening” and “insult to religion” after parents filed a formal complaint with local police late yesterday.

Jolie had late yesterday been stuck at the private Anjuman-i-Islam school when angry parents accused her bodyguards of shoving their children around.

The private NTDV network showed footage of the skirmish, where an unidentified man said one of Jolie's bodyguards called a man in the crowd outside the school a “bloody Indian” and made a gesture miming the slitting of a throat.

“Some of the students were pushed around when they were leaving school by the bodyguards,” said Mohammed Yousuf, general secretary of the parent teacher association, whose two children study at the school.

Dallington TV, the production house of A Mighty Heart, blamed paparazzi for the incident.

“We had got full permission and cooperation of the school to film on the premises. Unfortunately, our arrival was impeded by the paparazzi waiting at the school gates,” the production house said.

“When the gates were opened to allow parents to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed the school, causing confusion,” the statement said.

[Dallas59]

A taste of the real thing?...I bet it would have been worse had the parents known what the movie was about.

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[Dahoser]

Normally for things like this I say, "Who cares?" However, it appears that there is an insatiable appetite for news about celebrities, so I'm changing my question to, "Why do people care?"

I'm willing to bet the same people who buy People magazine and watch Access Hollywood and all the rest of that garbage, get themselves all spun up when one of their beloved celebrities is harassed by a paparazzi. It will never occur to them that they are the reason the paparazzi are doing what they do.

[seppel]

50 years ago Jolie would have been arrested for lewdness, improprietrary and blasphemy, in addition to leading youngsters astray.

[GOP Poet]

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[csvset]

“bloody Indian" ?

At least it wasn't macaca. That would have been serious.

[durasell]

The paparazzi tend to be good guys.

[BadAndy]

I H8 celebrities

[indthkr]

limosine liberal hypocrits bump (jolie/pitt)..............

[The Game Hen]

This reminds me of a story I heard this summer on the Greek Island of Santorini.
Apparently when Angelina was there filming Tomb Raider she had an Army of Body Guards. Her entourage was very rude and disruptive.
On the other hand, the first President Bush visits often. He moseys around town without a goon in sight.

[Cronos]

"Mumbai Islamic private school" makes me think the bit about the bodyguard saying "“bloody Indian”" is a lie. On what basis do they charge “insult to religion” ? Muslimes are causing trouble in India and they don't want a movie showing how a Muslim sliced off the neck of a man to be made.