A French court has banned Closer magazine from any publication or resale of the topless photos of Prince William’s wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
The court has ordered the magazine to hand over all photos in its possession to any representative of the Royal Couple within 24 hours or face punitive fines of 10,000 euros ($13,000) for every day’s delay.
The criminal proceedings has been initiated by the royal couple against Closer editor and its photographers over the topless photos of Kate Middleton.
The pictures spread on the internet and have been in Ireland’s Daily Star newspaper and Italy’s Chi magazine.
Police raided the office of Closer Magazine in search of the identy of the photographer who took the topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge.
The officers arrived at the magazine’s headquarters at 10 AM Paris time and searched the publication’s offices and examined journalists’ computers.
source: Rappler
Here is the statement of Paul Keenan, Chief Executive of Bauer Media in connection with the controversial photos of Kate Middleton.
As the owners of the Closer brand and publishers of Closer magazine we have complained in the strongest terms to the licensee of Closer France, over the publication by them of photographs of their Royal Highnesses, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge.We deplore the publication of these intrusive and offensive pictures and have asked that Closer France takes these pictures down immediately from its website and desist from publishing any further pictures.Bauer Media and Closer UK regards publication of these photographs as a gross intrusion of their Royal Highnesses’ privacy.We were not aware in advance of the purchase of these photographs or of any intention to publish. We have absolutely no control over the editorial decisions of Closer France.
In the light of their publication, we are now urgently discussing this matter with our licensee and reviewing the terms of our licence agreement with Closer France.Like our readers we are appalled and regret the pain the publication of these photographs has caused.
