Last weekend, while I was standing guard to get a photo of the actress Margot Robbie and the model Cara Delevingnethe photographer Pedro Orquera was brutally attacked by the private caretakers of international stars in a restaurant in La Boca, owned by Francis Mallmann.
According to eyewitnesses, they attacked him with unusual violence in this type of cover, causing the photojournalist to have an open fracture in his right elbow and a bleeding wound on his scalp.
“I was subjected to unusual violence and started a lawsuit”, assured in an interview with the Infobae portal, where he also claimed to be “psychologically very destroyed, very distressed”. “I’m not falling”, he detailed him.
“The photos were commissioned by a magazine, I was told that the two actresses were incognito in the countryside, I searched for them and found them at the restaurant. When they got out and were about to get into the car, the doors were closed and they went crazy. And so I got the photos, “he explained. It was in that situation that the two bodyguards went on him.
“They grabbed me, they started insulting me in English, they mistreated me and I ran to the taxi that was waiting for me. They wanted to take my camera,” the photojournalist told journalist María Laura Balonga.
According to information published by La Nación, Orquera was operated on at the Argerich hospital early Monday. “He is stable, hospitalized and under observation, sedated and with antibiotic treatment,” they commented from the hospital. However, this information was denied by the photographer’s environment.
as far as he could tell Clarione, Orquera has not yet been operated on because they have carried out new cardiological studies and blood tests that have not yet been observed by the body of surgeons. According to estimates, in the next few hours he could be in the operating room.
The photographer filed a complaint in court.
After the attack, the photographer filed a complaint and consequently two men of English nationality were arrested and are still in custody. As reported by the criminal prosecutor for fines n. 34, it’s about Jac Rhys Hopkins and Josei Mac Namara who attacked Orquera when she tried to take a photo of the actresses.
The Law Firm of Dr. Matías Morla is carrying out the legal representation of Orquera and although the lawyers of the attackers have applied for the release of both, they are still detained.
According to the police report, the actresses were having dinner in the restaurant owned by Francis Mallmann, in via Rocha 800 in the La Boca district, when Orquera tried to photograph them and was intercepted by two people who attacked him and caused him to death fracture. of the elbow. SAME intervened on the scene and took the photographer to the Argerich hospital where he was operated on.
Dr. Morla filed the document asking to be considered plaintiff in the event that he was registered as “injuries” and from Hopkins and Mac Namara they are still late. Both have already been appointed defense attorney: Dr. Marcos Gabriel Salt.
Source: Clarin
