Friday November 17, 2006

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Indian police on Friday arrested three British bodyguards working for Angelina Jolie after they allegedly roughed up parents and students at a Mumbai school where the star was filming scenes for A Mighty Heart, the Associated Press reports.
Witnesses said Jolie's bodyguards pushed and shoved some of the parents on Thursday afternoon when the gates of the Anjuman-e-Islam school, which had been locked during filming, were opened to let parents pick up their children. Police prosecutor N.C. Tambe told the court that the three guards had upset people by calling them "bloody Indians" and "bloody Muslims."
The bodyguards were released after posting bail of $545 each and then asked not to leave the country for one week. They will be required to report to local police every day for the next seven days. If convicted, the three can be jailed for up to three years.
Dallington TV, a British production company that organized the shoot, blamed the scuffle on photographers and television cameramen, saying they rushed the school to get pictures of the 31-year-old actress.
A Mighty Heart is based on a memoir written by Daniel Pearl's widow, Mariane. Pearl, who worked for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.
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