French court orders magazine to hand over topless Kate snaps

Agence France-Presse

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A French court orders Closer magazine to stop publishing and reselling Kate's topless photos

BANNED PHOTOS. A French court orders Closer magazine to stop publishing and selling topless photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. File photo by AFP / THOMAS SAMSON

PARIS, France – A French court on Tuesday, September 18, banned Closer magazine from any further publication or resale of topless pictures of Prince William’s wife Catherine.

An injunction granted by the court also ordered the magazine to hand over all files of the pictures in its possession to representatives of the royal couple within 24 hours and said it would be fined 10,000 euros ($13,000) for every day’s delay.

The ruling prevents Closer, which published the pictures on Friday, from reusing them in print or on its website, as well as from selling them to markets where they have not been published.

The pictures are already widely available on the Internet and have been printed in Ireland’s Daily Star newspaper and Italy’s Chi magazine.

The royal couple has initiated criminal proceedings over the topless pictures with the aim of securing the prosecution of Closer’s editor and the photographer or photographers who took the pictures.

A French prosecutor on Tuesday began a preliminary investigation into the criminal complaint. – Agence France-Presse

 

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