Google informed the European Commission on Tuesday of proposed changes to how it shows some of its search results in Europe, marking the beginning of the search giant’s formal response to a €2.4 billion antitrust fine.

The proposal comes amid speculation over whether Google will try to defuse tensions with EU regulators or pick a fight.

Any changes would take effect by September 28, but the Commission could hit Google with daily fines of up to €12 million starting on that date if it believes the search engine, which computes roughly 90 percent of searches in Europe, is not complying with its June decision on Google Shopping. Regulators advertised for experts to help monitor compliance.

The Commission and Google’s rivals will watch closely to see how wide-reaching the company’s draft solution could be. The proposals are expected to go further to incorporate rivals into Google Shopping than a 2014 settlement offer that the Commission rejected. The search giant’s competitors are also hoping the solution could be extended to other contentious services, such as Google Travel or Google Maps.

A spokesperson for the Commission confirmed Tuesday evening it had “received information from Google on how the company intends to ensure compliance with the Commission decision by the set deadline.” He declined to provide details on the content of the offer. A spokesperson for Google confirmed the company would submit its proposed solutions Tuesday, but declined to comment further.

The negotiations over the antitrust remedy will take place as EU competition enforcers continue to closely scrutinize other aspects of Google’s business model. They are working on two separate and well-advanced cases, targeting Google’s Android operating system for mobiles and AdSense for Search advertising business, and must decide whether to pursue additional complaints against Google Flights, local search and Google News, among others.

The company, which denies wrongdoing, will be eager to avoid the sort of drawn-out battle and fines that dogged Microsoft for the best part of a decade, but has made clear it disagrees with the Commission’s decision.

The company has yet to confirm whether it will appeal against the Commission’s €2.4 billion fine and remedies, with some Google staff questioning whether such a tactic — previously favored by tech giants Microsoft and Intel — could sour relations with EU policymakers that continue to investigate Google’s other businesses.

Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, hit Google with the fine in June for breaching EU competition rules by placing its own Google Shopping service — a price comparison website that morphed over time into an ad aggregator — at the top of its search results while demoting smaller rivals down the ranking. It ordered the U.S. tech giant to ensure “equal treatment” between Google Shopping and rival comparison shopping services.

The company has another two weeks or so to lodge an appeal.

“Ideally I would like to see a remedy that does not just work for Shopping but also for other [specialized search services],” said Thomas Höppner, a lawyer at Hausfeld who represents two associations of German publishers and the Open Internet Project, an association of European companies against Google, plus Visual-Meta, a comparison search engine owned by Axel Springer. (Axel Springer is the co-owner of POLITICO’s European edition.)

“My personal feeling is they will try to upgrade what they suggested to Almunia,” Höppner said.

Google brokered settlements with Joaquín Almunia, the previous European commissioner for competition, on three separate occasions, only to see each one rejected amid negative feedback from market players and political pressure from outside and within the Commission.

In the last remedy offer, which the Commission made public in February 2014, Google said it would include products, together with prices and a photo, from rival comparison websites in the Google Shopping box that appears at the top of certain searches. One objection raised at the time was that Google planned to hold auctions to determine who would be included, ensuring it continued to monetize the box.

A screenshot of the changes Google offered to make to Google Shopping back in 2014, as part of its failed settlement bid

Certain Google rivals have suggested the firm could drop its specialized search boxes, including Google Shopping, giving greater prominence to its standard search results — on the condition Google stop pushing rival services down the ranking.

Foundem, a price comparison website, which complained in 2010 that it had dropped off Google’s first page of search results, said this solution would be “by far the more straightforward to implement.”

But Google may be loath to shut down Google Shopping, which has proved popular with advertisers.

Mark Scott contributed reporting.

Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman was arrested Tuesday morning over a mail fraud charge related to a college admissions scam that involves 33 elite CEO and celebrity parents paying their children’s way into colleges across the country.

According to Variety, another Hollywood star implicated in the scam, Full House actress Lori Loughlin, has not yet been arrested and is negotiating terms of her surrender.

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are “accused of paying $500,000 to have their two daughters accepted to USC as members of the crew team, though they did not participate in crew,” the Variety report also states.

Yet the actress uses her social media to promote the virtue of “doing the right thing,” regardless of money.

Meanwhile, Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to rig an SAT test for her daughter.

At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law, finance or business, were among those charged in the investigation. Dozens, including Huffman, were arrested by midday.

The coaches worked at such schools as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. A former Yale soccer coach pleaded guilty and helped build the case against others.

Prosecutors said parents paid an admissions consultant from 2011 through last month to bribe coaches and administrators to label their children recruited athletes to boost their chances of getting into college. The consultant also hired ringers to take college entrance exams, and paid off insiders at testing centers to alter students’ scores.

Parents spent anywhere from $200,000 to $6.5 million to guarantee their children’s admission, officials said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The European Commission’s plan to boost waste recycling and foster a circular economy has split the EU into hostile camps.

On one side are the Eastern Europeans, who put a lot of garbage into landfills and some Nordic countries that tend to burn their waste — both are upset over ambitious EU recycling targets. On the other side are Western European countries which generate more trash than their Eastern counterparts, but tend to be more enthusiastic about recycling.

The goal is to adopt new recycling targets and a methodology to count the waste countries recycle as part of the Commission’s four legislative proposals on waste. But countries, the Council and the Parliament are still far apart.

“We have a long way to go, a very long way,” one EU diplomat said.

In May, the Maltese presidency secured a negotiating mandate from the Council, which allowed for negotiations to start with the Parliament. However, the Council text significantly watered down Commission and Parliament proposals on several core issues.

In the Council mandates, obtained by POLITICO, EU countries backed a recycling target of 60 percent for municipal waste by 2030, down from 65 percent in the Commission’s proposal and 70 percent in the Parliament’s position.

The Council slashed the Commission’s proposed recycling targets for materials such as plastic — from 55 percent to 30 percent by 2025 — and aluminum — from 85 percent to 50 percent by 2030.

It also pushed for countries to be given an additional decade to reach a 2030 cap on landfilled waste of 10 percent proposed by the Commission, a move that infuriated NGOs, which see cutting the amount of trash being dumped in landfills as key to fostering resource efficiency. “This lenient approach is a major step back in the ambition,” said Piotr Barczak, from the European Environmental Bureau, a coalition of NGOs that keeps track of EU country positions on the file.

While the first trilogue negotiating rounds focused on technical sections of the texts, talks are expected to get more heated ahead of the third meeting between the three EU institutions on September 26.

“We have not yet opened any of the major issues,” an Estonian presidency official said, while still expressing confidence they would be able to clinch a deal.

The challenge is that countries have very different consumption habits and approaches to waste management, and that makes it difficult for them to agree on changing the hard-fought compromise reached earlier this year.

Central and Eastern European countries, such as the Baltics, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Malta and Cyprus, rely on landfill and have low recycling rates.

Meanwhile, Nordic countries such as Denmark and Finland put very little waste into landfills but burn a lot of trash, something that worries environmentalists. Usually considered environmental champions, those nations opposed higher recycling targets in the Council, according to their own declarations to the European Environmental Bureau.

Nordic and Western European countries also generate more waste per capita than Central Europeans, something countries like Poland were eager to point out during negotiations.

Poland was one of those leading the charge against the landfill cap in the Council in June, warning it could lead to an increase in incineration. “For many local governments [incineration] is still the easiest way to do it,” said Sławomir Mazurek, Poland’s deputy minister in charge of waste management.

The picture gets even more complicated for material-specific targets. The Czech Republic, for instance, opposed high recycling targets for aluminum packaging, claiming that glass packaging for beverages is more common than cans in the country, so it didn’t have the critical mass to build a recycling system.

“It is a very challenging and technical topic,” the Estonian presidency official said.

While Parliament pushed for much higher recycling targets, the Maltese presidency had to cut that down to garner national support for their negotiating position.

The Estonians started suggesting compromises from the very first days of their presidency, a leaked document obtained by POLITICO showed. Although setting a lower target managed to get enough support to form a common Council position, Parliament is unwilling to give up on its higher ambitions.

“It gives a hope that the Council will be open for raising the ambition to get closer to a circular economy,” said Barczak.

In the bid for speed, the package went straight from the technical level to trilogue, as the Maltese presidency only requested a mandate from EU country deputy ambassadors. That means sensitive political issues haven’t really been sorted out.

Some EU countries are pushing to get higher-level officials involved. “Not once has the package been discussed among ministers politically here in the Council. We think this is a pity,” Denmark said at the Environment Council in June.

Denmark’s position is echoed in part of the Parliament’s negotiating team. “As long as the Council does not have a position [at the ministerial level], it is a waste of time,” Liberal MEP and shadow rapporteur Nils Torvalds said. “The Council is very divided. They should make up their minds.”

The two men connected to the alleged staged attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett were released without charges late Friday due to “new evidence” resulting from their interrogation, the Chicago Police Department announced.

“Due to new evidence as a result of today’s interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released without charging and detectives have additional investigative work to complete,” Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.

Earlier Friday, the two men linked to the investigation were identified by the Daily Mail as Nigerian-born actors Abimbola “Abel” and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo. The pair were arrested and taken in for questioning Wednesday by police officers at O’Hare Airport after returning from a trip to Nigeria to visit family.

Gloria Schmidt, an attorney for the brothers told CBS 2 that her clients could be charged on Friday. “They were actually detained at customs at O’Hare airport yesterday around 5:45 p.m.,” Schmidt said. “They had no idea what was going on, and they’ve been detained since then.”

“When they first learned about what happened to him they were horrified. This is someone they know. This is someone they’ve worked with, so they don’t want to see somebody go through that,” she continued.

The lawyer confirmed Osundairo had been extras on Empire and worked out with Smollett.

“They are really baffled why they are people of interest,” said Schmidt. “They really don’t understand how they even got information that linked them to this horrific crime, but they are not guilty of it.”

On Thursday, Guglielmi told reporters that detectives were questioning the men — but said neither of them were “considered suspects at this time.”

The brothers were reportedly spotted on surveillance footage in the Chicago neighborhood where the alleged incident occurred.

The developments come as police continue to investigate the case, which began with Smollett claiming two masked individuals shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him and doused him with an unknown chemical substance on January 29. The 36-year-old also told police the alleged assailants hung a thin rope around his neck and yelled “This is MAGA country” before taking off.

Guglielmi said Monday they were unable to criminally investigate the alleged incident after Smollett turned over phone records that were redacted.  “We are very appreciative of the victim’s cooperation however the records provided do not meet the burden for a criminal investigation as they were limited and heavily redacted,” he said. “Detectives may be following up with him to request additional data to corroborate the investigative timeline.”
Smollett has maintained that he has been truthful about the incident, contending his story has not changed since it took place. “I am working with authorities and have been 100% factual and consistent on every level,” the actor said in a statement to ESSENCE magazine. “Despite my frustrations and deep concern with certain inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have been spread, I still believe that justice will be served.”

In four months, new destinations for Europe’s banking and medicines regulators will be decided by EU leaders in a vote triggered by Brexit. No longer able to remain in the U.K., the two prestigious agencies will be relocated elsewhere in the bloc.

For the hundreds of staff working at the European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority and their families, this is a critical moment that will shape their lives. Likewise, for the cities bidding to welcome them, there is much at stake — political cachet and an economic boost.

With the end of July deadline for bids from countries hoping to host the agencies looming, this is POLITICO’s guide to what is happening and why it matters.

What do the European Banking Authority and European Medicines Agency do?

EBA: It’s part of the European System of Financial Supervision and is one of three financial supervisory authorities, which include the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). Its main task is to help write the European Single Rulebook for EU financial institutions by drafting technical standards and guidelines. It is also supposed to promote convergence in how EU countries comply with financial regulations by doing things like monitoring national implementation of rules. It also administers EU-wide bank stress tests.

EMA: Regulates human and animal health medicines that are marketed across the European Union. It provides the pharmaceutical industry with guidance on what evidence is required to demonstrate that a product is safe and effective, and also assesses the final evidence to decide if the drug is fit to be placed on the market. The EMA does not issue drug licenses; it advises the European Commission, which signs off on these decisions. The EMA also oversees the continued safety of a product. It manages a database of reported adverse events (such as unexpected side-effects) and investigates when concerns are raised. It has the power to recommend a drug’s license be revoked. The agency also provides the most up-to-date information on medicines and the data that supports their licenses.

Why are they moving?

Immediately after Brexit was triggered, there was speculation the U.K. could hold onto the agencies, or at least maintain some kind of membership of them, as non-EU members Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein do. Although there is no specific law or treaty that states an EU agency cannot be outside the EU, it is commonly assumed that the headquarters of a European agency shall be hosted by an EU member country. Prime Minister Theresa May’s insistence that the U.K. would leave the single market and EU jurisdiction removed any doubt because membership of the agencies is governed by EU laws.

How will this affect me?

EBA: It depends on what you do. If you work in financial services, not having the EBA nearby could make having a voice in the consultation and decision-making processes around EU regulation more difficult. Although Britain is leaving the EU, the banks based in the City of London still want to carry on doing business there. Having less access to the EBA provides another incentive for them to move some staff onto the Continent.

That might have a knock-on effect even if you don’t work in financial services. The economy could take a hit if moving the EBA further exacerbates the movement of financial services industry workers out of London.

EMA: Ending membership of the EMA could result in delayed access to the latest new medicines for U.K. patients. After Brexit, depending on the deal that the U.K. government makes with the EU, drugmakers are likely to face a separate regulatory process to launch their products in the U.K. Patient groups fear that because the U.K. market is so much smaller, it will make it less attractive for companies who will put their efforts into authorizing drugs in the EU first. There are also concerns over whether the U.K. will continue to be linked to the EMA’s drug safety monitoring database to help identify adverse events tied to a medicine more quickly across Europe. The U.K. would be excluded from a new clinical trials database, which the EMA is launching in 2019, that will speed the time it takes to start a new study anywhere across Europe. The drugs sector warns this could diminish the incentive to carry out research in the U.K.

How and when will the location be decided?

The process for deciding where the agencies will be relocated was set out in a European Council document published June 22. The document calls for contenders to submit bids with information on how they would meet a list of six criteria:

1. The agency must be fully operational at its new site at the time the U.K. leaves the EU. That means bidders need to show a facility can be totally outfitted with offices, meeting rooms, archiving and telecommunications equipment that meet IT security standards.

2. The location needs to be easily accessible, with sufficient flight connections from EU member country capitals, and reliable public transport to airports, as well as enough hotels to accommodate large meetings with international visitors.

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3. Adequate facilities for current and future educational needs of children of the staff.

4. Access to educational and career opportunities, social security and medical care for staff families.

5. Resources to ensure the agency remains functional during the transition. That could mean, for example, having a rich enough labor market to fill vacancies quickly left by those employees who decide not to move.

6. Geographical spread, which refers to how spread out agency locations should be across the EU.

Each country can offer to host one or both agencies but make only one offer per agency. All bids are due July 31 and will eventually be published on the website of the Council of the EU.

The European Commission will then evaluate bids by September 30 and present findings in October to the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union. The Commission will not rank the bids. Candidates will be allowed to present their bids in person.

Voting happens in November at the General Affairs Council. There will be up to three rounds of secret voting. Countries can abstain, and they can vote for themselves. Voting on the EMA will happen first. In the first round, each country has 6 points. They must give three points to their preferred bid, two to their second choice and one to their third. If no single country secures 14 first preference ballots (a majority of the 27 EU member countries), they move to round two.

In the second round, countries vote for one of the three (or more) bids with the highest votes from round one. Each country has one vote, which they must issue to their preferred bid. If no single offer receives 14 or more votes it moves to round three, where countries vote for one of the two remaining offers with the highest votes. The bid with the most votes wins. If there is a tie, the presidency will draw lots.

Voting on the EBA will follow the same process. The winning member country for the EMA will be excluded as a candidate for the EBA location, though they can still vote.

Doesn’t the staff get a say?

The agencies will have no say. However, when drafting its assessment of the bids, the Commission will consult with the agencies on how the bids meet their technical requirements. To date, 17 of the 23 countries that expressed an interest in hosting the EMA have visited the agency to find out what the staff need to operate and relocate smoothly.

What happened when this voting process was used before?

The only precedent dates from 2013 when the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) had to leave the U.K., which did not want to host it anymore. Seven cities applied to host the 60-staff agency: Templemore, Ireland; Veria, Greece; Avila, Spain; Rome; Budapest; The Hague; and Tampere, Finland. The voting took place at a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers in October 2013 and Budapest won.

Voting for the relocation of the EBA and the EMA is expected to be more complex because there’s a larger pool of applicants and greater political sensitivity.

Why are they such a big prize?

EBA: It only has 167 employees (plus 17 seconded national expert posts), but the EBA is an important cog in the wheel of EU financial regulation. The think tank Bruegel says that by attracting a chunk of the finance industry to relocate with it, there will be extra benefits for the host city like high-quality jobs, a boom for supporting services like law firms, and higher tax revenues.

EMA: The larger of the two prizes, the EMA has 890 full-time staff (54 percent of them with children) and hosts 36,000 experts for scientific meetings every year. That level of activity will boost any economy, through hospitality, spousal jobs, support services etc. Proximity to the EMA has been a key reason cited by non-EU international pharmaceutical companies — particularly from the U.S. and Japan — for opting to base their EU headquarters in the U.K. There’s a high chance some of those businesses will follow the EMA to their new host country.

What is the deadline?

It’s Monday (July 31).

Who wants them?

EBA: The EBA has been courted by over a dozen capital cities on the Continent, said the agency’s Executive Director Adam Farkas. However, he had no insight into how many of those courting sessions might translate into actual bids.

To make things more interesting for the EBA, the question on relocation has also overlapped with a required review of the European Supervisory Agencies, which was released in March.

That consultation proposed that the EBA could be merged with the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, which is located in Frankfurt, and consumer protection powers carved out and put under the European Securities and Markets Authority in Paris. That original merging idea was actually floated back in the 2014 review of the European Supervisory Agencies, but the 2017 consultation suggests it may have found its time with Brexit — Germany is very much in favor of this, while France isn’t keen.

The Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Hungary and Poland are among those who have expressed an interest. Ireland published a public brochure welcoming the EBA, while the Czech government wants the EBA to be located in Prague, according to a report from CTK.

EMA: Within months of the Brexit referendum 23 out of 27 EU countries had expressed an interest in hosting the EMA. According to POLITICO research, that number has now fallen to 21, but there could still be a last minute surprise once the bids have been submitted and are publicly available.

The countries that have ruled themselves out of the bidding are the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as Slovenia and Luxembourg, with the latter only bidding for the European Banking Authority. The Czech Republic and Slovenia have also backed out, after showing an initial interest.

Who are the front-runners?

EBA: The front-runner is Frankfurt. The German financial hub leads the pack on attracting a big chunk of banking business, with major international firms like Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and most recently Mizuho planning on opening offices there. A recent poll by lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance found that 57 percent in the German financial industry believe the EBA will come to Frankfurt. But Paris is actively contesting Frankfurt’s bid and likely to veto any moves to merge the EBA with EIOPA.

EMA: Broadly speaking, the Western European and some Scandinavian countries appear to be front-runners. They have been the most vocal and open about their bids. Some, like the Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark, hosted events in Brussels to present their bids. This is in stark contrast to others like Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary and Slovakia, who are keeping bid details more quiet.

What do the banking and pharma industries think?

EBA: Apparently, most bankers don’t really care where the EBA ends up, and seem to feel the debate is a political one that they should not get involved in. “I really don’t think banks will go out of their way to lobby for one location or another,” one lobbyist at a European bank told POLITICO.

EMA: By contrast, the pharmaceutical industry does care — a lot. National pharma lobby groups were first to publicly state they wanted the EMA in their countries, ahead of official government backing. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk actively campaigned for the EMA to move to Denmark, tweeting and issuing statements in support of Copenhagen’s bid. Former Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sørensen was appointed special envoy of the Danish government in February and visited the EMA in June. Similarly, France’s pharma lobby LEEM enthusiastically backed the Lille bid, as did respective trade groups in Sweden, Germany, Italy and others. The EU-wide pharma lobby group, however, took no stance.

How can I find out more about the bids?

EBA: Dublin produced a brochure. The Czech Republic wrote a letter about its candidacy. 

EMA: The following cities have websites about their bids: Vienna; Brussels; Copenhagen; Lille; Bonn; Dublin; Milan; Amsterdam; Stockholm; Athens, Zagreb. See this interactive graphic for more details about the countries’ work courting the agency.

— This article was corrected on 7 August. A previous version stated an incorrect figure for the number of employees at the European Banking Authority. This has been changed to the number (184) cited in the EBA’s Statement of revenue and expenditure for 2016/17. 

The Spurs boss has been vocal about missing the two attacking stars, but his next opponent pointed out they have done without Kane before

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has played down Jose Mourinho’s injury complaints about Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, pointing out that a previous Tottenham boss fared all too well without the England dangerman.

Mourinho has described his side’s injury plight as the “worst in Europe for a specific position” with the pair thought to be set for long spells on the sideline.

Chelsea too have been hit by their worst injury period of the season, with N’Golo Kante, Christian Pulisic and Callum Hudson-Odoi likely to miss out on Saturday as Lampard gears up to face his former Blues mentor.

After a week of tense Brexit negotiations, the European Commission was keen to move on and talk about a whole host of other subjects.

When Brexit did come up, Schinas stuck to the long-standing policy of refusing to comment. At the weekend, British media reported that EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the U.K. needs to be “educated” about the consequences of leaving the bloc.

“I was not there,” Schinas answered when asked to confirm Barnier’s comment, which was given in French. Barnier has denied the reports, hinting that there was a mistranslation of his statement.

Schinas also said he was not willing “to engage” when asked about a comment from David Davis, the U.K.’s Brexit secretary, that Barnier’s comments were “a bit silly.”

Margaritis Schinas, the Commission’s chief spokesman, said Tibor Navracsics, the commissioner for education, culture, youth and sport, is in Italy with European Parliament President Antonio Tajani. They are visiting the region of Norcia because Brussels is providing €1.2 billion of extra financial assistance and 230 volunteers from the European Solidarity Corps to the area, which was struck by several earthquakes over the past couple of years.

Schinas had less to say when asked if the Commission would side with German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz, and to a lesser extent Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in an election debate on Sunday called for an end to EU accession talks with Turkey. Schulz was clear he wanted the membership talks stopped, while Merkel was far more cautious.

The spokesman repeated a statement given last week by Jean-Claude Juncker in which he said “Turkey is moving away in giant strides from Europe.”

Schinas added that it was not up to individual member countries to decide if EU accession talks should be ended, although he declined to describe how the process works.

Responding to a op-ed in POLITICO on a lack of diversity in the Commission, Schinas said it “does not discriminate on any grounds.”

Catherine Ray, the spokeswoman for foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, said the EU has “extensive” sanctions in place against North Korea after Pyongyang detonated what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb.

As some European leaders called for tougher sanctions, Ray said any “additional measures are a possible option but [a decision] will be taken by the Council.”

Finally, the Commission said it was “not aware of the details” of a report by the International Council on Clean Transportation, which claimed barely 10 percent of new cars in Europe respected EU emissions rules which came into force on September 1.

Sale week-end pour Sam Worthington. Dimanche, l’acteur a été arrêté dans les rues de New York après une bagarre avec un paparazzi.

Valérie Trierweiler et Julie Gayet peuvent en témoigner, la présence des paparazzis dans votre vie peut vite faire tourner le quotidien en un véritable cauchemar. Sam Worthington n’est pas du genre à laisser ces photographes peu scrupuleux perturber sa vie.

Ce dimanche, l’acteur britanno-australien a en effet pété les plombs en frappant violemment un paparazzi. Pendant qu’il se baladait dans les rues de New York avec sa compagne, la sublime Lara Bingle, la star d’Avatar a eu le malheur de croiser sur sa route un photographe pour le moins intrusif. Tandis que le couple sortait d’un bar de Greenwich Village, le paparazzi est venu bousculer la jolie blonde. Une attitude qui a eu le don d’énerver le comédien, entré dans une colère noire.

Selon plusieurs médias américains, Sam Worthington s’en serait directement pris au paparazzi. « Sam Worthington a frappé un paparazzi qui aurait donné un coup de pied à sa compagne. Il lui a balancé un coup de poing qui lui a égratigné le nez » a expliqué un porte-parole de la police locale. Suite à cette échauffourée, les deux hommes ont été arrêtés par les autorités. Selon le site E !, l’acteur de 37 ans va être poursuivi pour agression sur un paparazzi et le photographe sera entendu pour mise en danger délibérée de la vie d’autrui, agression et harcèlement.

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Pour le beau Sam Worthington, cette affaire risque fort de se finir devant les tribunaux. Un scénario imprévu pour le comédien qui doit par ailleurs retrouver prochainement les studios pour le tournage du deuxième opus d’Avatar avec la belle Zoe Saldana.

Samy Naceri a passé la nuit de samedi à dimanche en garde à vue. Le comédien aurait menacé une femme avec un couteau.

Une ligne de plus dans le long dossier des faits divers liés à Samy Naceri. L’acteur de 52 ans a été placé en garde à vue ce week-end, selon RTL. L’acteur aurait été arrêté par les forces de l’ordre après avoir menacé avec un couteau une femme « refusant ses avances ». La brigade anti-criminalité a donc interpellé le Parisien dans un restaurant du XIe arrondissement dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche.

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Embarqué par les forces de l’ordre à 2h30 du matin, Samy Naceri a été placé en garde à vue puis relâché en fin de matinée. La femme n’a pas porté plainte. Une arrestation qui intervient à deux semaines d’un nouveau procès pour le comédien. Il sera en effet jugé au tribunal de Paris le 18 mars prochain pour une vive altercation avec son ex-compagne à la mi-janvier.

Samy Naceri s’est fait connaître du grand public en 1998 grâce à son rôle de chauffard sympathique dans le film Taxi de Gérard Pirès. Depuis quelques années maintenant, il apparaît pourtant plus fréquemment dans la colonne des faits divers que sur nos écrans. Parmi ses derniers démêlés avec la justice, l’acteur collectionne une condamnation à 10 000 euros d’amende en 2012 et une peine de prison de 16 mois fermes en 2009.