Pippa Middleton To Be Quizzed By Police? Friend Points 'Gun' At Paparazzi In Paris

Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 16/04/2012 10:25 Updated: 19/04/2012 09:21

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Pippa Middleton could be quizzed by police after she was pictured in a car with a group of friends, one of whom pointed a 'gun' at paparazzi.

The incident occurred in Paris this weekend, just weeks after France was rocked by a series of gun massacres.

The shocking picture, published exclusively in The Sun, appears to show the barrel of what looks to be a semi-automatic gun.

It is not yet known if the weapon is real or a toy, but last night the Paris Judicial Police were said to be poised to investigate. Pippa was in the French capital attending a fancy dress party with friends.

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Pippa and an unidentified male friend in Paris this weekend


The group of friends are seen larking about, apparently after attending a fancy dress party

A source told the newspaper: “If the evidence points to her involvement, she will be prosecuted. Anybody involved in the illegal use of a handgun in public is liable to arrest and interrogation.”

Even if the gun is found to be a fake, Pippa, 27, could still face a maximum jail sentence of two years.

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The source added: "Certainly if you were in a car and knew somebody was using a gun to warn people off you’d be liable to arrest."

The photographer who took the shot is said to be considering whether to make a formal police complaint.

Last month a gunman on a motorbike opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, killing three children and a rabbi. Two soldiers were also killed and one was wounded in a further attack at a military base in Montauban.

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J Michael Norris
05:51 PM on 05/30/2012
A "fancy dress party" sounds like something my 6 year-old neice would attend.
02:48 PM on 04/18/2012
What do the police think they're playing at? All they'll achieve here is her exoneration as a yardies' icon!
05:16 AM on 04/18/2012
Thats obviously a toy gun...you can see the trigger guard is thin and flimsy, its clearly a plastic gun. its meant to put the wind up the paparazzi vultures....! so well done...now leave them alone...
03:26 AM on 04/18/2012
I hope Kate got the family brain cell, as these are the genes that are going to provide our future Kings or Queens.
08:15 PM on 04/17/2012
strange thing is,,,she ain't particullarly (how the f##k do you spell that) good looking.
05:00 PM on 04/17/2012
What exactly does Pippa M actually do?
06:35 PM on 04/17/2012
She makes money out of being related to a girl who married a royal.
06:42 PM on 04/17/2012
She edits a web magazine for her parent's company
05:00 PM on 04/17/2012
LOOKS LIKE AN ESCORT TO ME.
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Nicole White Ocus
04:31 PM on 04/17/2012
I don't see what all of the press is on her for? She is cute, but that is about it! She is more popular then her sister, who is now a princess and way prettier!
03:32 PM on 04/17/2012
To all you people out there who comment without fully reading the article, click on the link to The Sun or read the press today. Miss Middleton thinks she can do whatever she likes and should remember that laws vary in different countries ,she may not have known about the gun but it would appear that in France it is no excuse.
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Judith K Bogdanove
07:09 PM on 04/17/2012
I don't think you have any idea of the kind of persecution this young woman has endured since her sister's becoming a royal. She has been the focus of thousands of papparazzi, on a constant basis. No action of her life goes unstalked. Hundreds of pictures of her cross publishers' desks daily. DAILY. She receives no security protection from the Royal Family, in spite of the fact that she is under constant harassment from predatory photographers. She has shown signs of stress from this, and don't forget that Princess Diana was KILLED fleeing the papparazzi-- also in Paris. Cut her a break. She's no criminal, and to put her in jail because of this would be a ridiculous over-reaction.
11:53 PM on 04/17/2012
she should go to prison if there was any wrong doing. no body has a right to point a gun at anyone real or otherwise.
04:24 PM on 04/18/2012
Well said! She has done nothing wrong, she was not the one with the gun. How many people go and get drunk, vomit in the street on a regular basis in the UK, and Pippa just had a good time like people of her age. I have seen clips of the party on French TV, it was totally harmless. You would think that nobody in the UK party. People hate Pippa because her sister married Prince William, to their great annoyance as they are jealous that an ordinary girl has married into the royal family.
07:33 PM on 04/17/2012
Please expand on what signs of stress she has shown. As for jail talk to the French. She appears to be enjoying herself climbing the social ladder. As for cutting a break she could always keep a lower profile and choose her friends more carefully. This has nothing to do with Princess Diana, remember the French children recently shot dead.
02:25 PM on 04/17/2012
How much of the 2 -7 years will she serve for the offence in a french prison
01:43 PM on 04/17/2012
You thought PPI stood for Payment Protection Insurance WRONG - PPI Pippa's Police Interview
01:37 PM on 04/17/2012
not a patch on her sister.
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rrozy2222
do as you would be done by
01:34 PM on 04/17/2012
What an embarrasment to her sister!!
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ochaye
01:27 PM on 04/17/2012
Who woulda thought. An elite carrying a gun?
12:20 PM on 04/17/2012
MORON, The guy has his finger on the trigger,,,as per the photo. If I was confronted with this and looking at the situation I would have no qualms about slotting the guy. Who knows may be it was a water pistol ..... But first rule of thumb NEVER NEVER point an Imitation or Real weapon at any one.. I spent a lot of time around fire arms and its not some thing you want to kid with. If the CRS or whoever had been to hand ,,,,May be a Royal sister might be in mourning.
I fully expect whoever they were to be arrested or at least shown the door.
01:49 PM on 04/19/2012
From your username i assume your a member of the TA who likes Andy Mcnab?
03:04 PM on 04/19/2012
Actually I have no interest in Andy McNab nor Chris Ryan.. nor am I in the TA , I have had close connections with Brecon about 30 years ago. Roundabout the same time as mates were heading of to the South Atlantic. My user name is one that I use because it's simple and I have a wall full of books on the regiment..and I do have some firearms training.So my point was NEVER point a gun!
So what point where you making?