Word: voici
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interviewed by investigators, says he rushed to a phone as soon as he came across the crushed Mercedes -- only to have the operator hang up on him. The operator "thought it was a joke and said 'we have no time for fun... this is an emergency number,'" Petel told Voici magazine Tuesday. Worse was to come when Petel took his story to the police station: He was handcuffed and held for three hours...
Both legislation and self-regulation have been tried overseas, with mixed results. A French law enacted in 1970 allows the courts to punish press actions that are deemed an "assault on intimacy or privacy." Actress Isabelle Adjani used the law to win a judgment against the tabloid Voici in 1995 for running photos taken without her permission. Still, French paparazzi are widely perceived to be among the world's most brazen. In Britain, meanwhile, the Press Complaints Commission, established in 1991, has drawn up a code of practice to prevent invasive press tactics. Though hard to enforce, the rules have...