A Ukrainian mannequin has stated she is on the point of file a lawsuit towards “the organizers of the Cannes Movie Competition” over what she described because the aggressive drive used towards her on the crimson carpet by the pageant’s safety.
Launching her seek for a lawyer on social media on Wednesday, mannequin Sawa Pontyjska stated she was looking for a “severe” lawyer to take the pageant organizers to courtroom over “unreasonable bodily drive” she witnessed from pageant safety.
“I had all the time dreamed of entering into the Cannes Movie Competition,” she stated. “However then I used to be shocked in regards to the rudeness and unreasonable use of drive I skilled on the crimson carpet.”
Pontyjska was one in all a number of Cannes Movie Competition company, together with American singer Kelly Rowland and Dominican actress Massiel Taveras, who was filmed in red-carpet altercations with the identical pageant guard.
In an interview with the BBC, Pontjyska stated she had not completed something unsuitable through the altercation however was “violently kicked” and has since tried to contact pageant organizers to request an apology however has not obtained a response.
“I used to be making an attempt to flee from this lock. I went down and I began to run away on the steps as a result of it was the way in which again [out],” she stated. “She was making an attempt to push me in[side], so no person can see what she’s doing with me. Then she kicked me out by the again door.”
Her authorized criticism stated she was “violently challenged by one in all a gaggle of safety guards” in entrance of “1000’s of individuals,” the BBC report states.
In her social media video, Pontyjska says she is banding along with different red-carpet victims to launch the case. It’s unclear who precisely she is referring to as her co-claimants.
Organizers for the Cannes Movie Competition didn’t instantly reply to our request for remark.
