- Title: GERMANY: ROBERT DE NIRO SPEAKS ON RECENT ARREST.
- Date: 21st February 1998
- Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 21, 1998) (RTV COVER - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN/MV: EXTERIOR INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL BERLIN (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. MCU: POSTER OF ROBERT DE NIRO'S LATEST FILM "WAG THE DOG" 0.16 3. MV: ACTOR ROBERT DE NIRO ARRIVES FOR PRESS CONFERENCE/ PHOTOGRAPHERS (3 SHOTS) 0.35 4. CU: DE NIRO SAYING HIS INTEROGATION BY FRENCH POLICE WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE AND A TOTALLY UNNECESSARY ONE. THAT EVEN THE POLICE WERE EMBARRASSED, AND THAT THE JUDGE MADE A BIG DRAMA OUT OF IT BY SENDING SEVEN OR EIGHT POLICE BURSTING INTO HIS ROOM. JOKING THAT MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE CALLED AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OR SOMETHING. (ENGLISH) 1.19 5. CU: DE NIRO SAYING THE LAWS IN FRANCE ARE STRANGE, YOU'RE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. BUT IT WAS A STRANGE AND UNNECESSARY EXPERIENCE. THAT THE JUDGE WAS CARRYING OUT AN EMBARRASSING WITCH-HUNT (ENGLISH) 1.54 6. GV: WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 1.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA694FTDGT9M9NYA0B7EJQIJ1XK
- Story Text: Hollywood film star Robert DeNiro has described his recent arrest by French police as an "awful experience", and accused the judge who ordered him to be detained of carrying out a "witchhunt." De Niro was speaking to reporters on Saturday (February 20) at the premiere of his latest film "Wag the Dog" at the Berlin Film Festival.
De Niro discussed the incident in Paris on February 10th, when he was seized by "seven or eight" French police who burst into his hotel room and arrested him for allegedly being involved in a prostitution ring aimed at wealthy Middle East clients.
De Niro explained that even the police, who interrogated him for nine hours, were embarrassed by their own behaviour, and he was later released without any charges.
The film, finished months before the Clinton scandal broke, tells the story of a U.S.president, days before an election, facing accusations that he had sex with a teenage girl.
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