Two filmmakers friends of Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne finally got out of prison after spending several hours in detention for allegedly assaulting a paparazzi over the weekend.
According to The Sun , British film producer Josey MacNamara and camera operator Jac Hopkins were caught leaving a police station in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hopkins and MacNamara were arrested after allegedly assaulting the photographer Pedro Alberto Orquera when he was seen taking photos of Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne while they ate at a restaurant in Buenos Aires, this Sunday morning.
According to police and witness reports, the filmmakers chased Orquera out of the restaurant, then subdued him on the concrete floor, beat him and tried to break his camera .
Pedro Alberto Orquera, who ended up with a broken arm after the attack, told the Argentine media or TN who was able to protect his equipment and the photos he had taken.
“I suffered a brutal attack… My life was miraculously saved, I don’t know what would have happened if I fell headfirst to the ground, with the speed with which those people chased me,” said Orquera. “They never took my material from me… When I fell to the ground, the camera broke, but I was able to save the material.”
They pay for their actions… for a while
MacNamara and Hopkins were arrested by the police and taken to the police station for questioning, while Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne reportedly fled the scene.
Orquera was placed in a neck brace and taken on a stretcher to the Argerich Hospital in the Argentine capital, where he remains under observation and is awaiting surgery for his broken arm. He assured that he does not know if he will recover full use of the limb.
“I have a cast on my right arm, my arm is very compromised and I don’t know if I am going to lose it”, he affirmed.
However, according to TMZ, a different source said that Pedro Alberto Orquera was actually the aggressor, and that he rushed the actresses while they were getting into an Uber, causing the driver to start driving.
The fountain He said that Orquera continued to insist on the photos, while Margot Robbie was the one who apparently tripped and hurt herself after running out of the car. It was then that MacNamara and Hopkins approached to help her and confront the photographer.
The stars were outside the restaurant of the famous Argentine chef Francis Mallmann, around 3: 00 Sunday morning hours, when the incident with Orquera occurred.
“I started to run away from them because they were beating me“ Orquera told The Sun. “As I was running from them, they kicked me hard, so my camera went flying and I fell to the ground and hurt my arm.”
A police report states that MacNamara and Hopkins told officers that Orquera was “responsible for his own injuries ”, since the two actresses had not given their consent to be photographed.
According to several local media, MacNamara and Hopkins will not be able to leave the country so easily, since they must first pay a fine.
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