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He prince harry accuses British tabloids of having “incited hatred and harassment” in his private life in a written document released Tuesday in the United Kingdom while he testifies in the High Court of London in the case of the alleged illegal wiretapping of the Daily Mirror. The Duke of Sussex, 38 years old and a resident of USAtestifies today before this British court for the lawsuit against the group Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), accused of having engaged in illegal practices to obtain exclusives.
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The youngest son of King Charles IIIwhich is being questioned by the lawyer of MGN, Andrew Greenaffirms in the document that “it is no secret” that he has had, and continues to have, “a very difficult relationship with the tabloids in the United Kingdom” and reproaches the media for having “typecast” to members of royalty, in his case referred to as “the idiot” or the “irresponsible who takes drugs”.
Regrets, according to this, that “or are you the womanizer princethe failure, the outcast or, in my case, the idiot, the cheater, the underage drinker, the irresponsible drug taker, and the list goes on.”
“When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I ended up feeling that I was behaving following the pattern of many of the headlines and stereotypes that were assigned to me, mainly because I thought, if they are already publishing this garbage about me and people believe it, maybe I also ‘commit the crime’, so to speak “Explain.
Along these lines, Harry admits that he fell into a “spiral downhill” in which those sensationalist media treated “constantly” of “to cajole the troubled young man into doing something stupid that would lead to a good story and sold many newspapers.
“Looking back now, that kind of conduct on your part is totally vile”declares.
In his complaint against the aforementioned media group, the Duke alleges that journalists from the MGN headlines -which include the sunday mirror and to sunday people– tapped private phones and hired detectives to collect personal information on celebrities, which they then aired in detail.
In his speech today, Harry focuses on 33 articles out of 140 published between 1996 and 2010 by tabloids Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The Peoplewhich, according to him, contained information collected using illegal methods.
For its part, MGN has denied or not admitted them and also argues that some of the plaintiffs have transferred their particular cases to court too late.
In case of Harry which has aroused a great deal of media attention and gathers dozens of reporters at the gates of the court, is exposed at the same time as those of three other accusations considered “representative” of celebrities in the country, as part of a judicial process that began last month and will last about seven weeks.
The prince appeared last March before that same court in a preliminary hearing in relation to a separate accusation against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), owner of the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday.
It has also taken legal action against News Group Newspapersowners of the sun and he already disappeared News Of The World.
Source: Elcomercio
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