Lto widow of Kobe Bryant, Vanessa Bryantcharged hard this Friday against the authorities for illegally disseminating photographs of the corpses of the former Los Angeles player Lakers and his daughter Gianna (13 years old) after losing his life in a helicopter accident.
“I feel devastated, hurt and betrayed by the county employees who leaked the photos.“, sentenced before a Los Angeles County court, where she added that she has not yet seen those images because she wants to “remember them as they were”.
These statements were made during the eighth day of trial after the demand that the woman filed against him los angeles county after several deputies of the ‘sheriff’ and members of the Fire Department spread photos of the lifeless bodies of Kobe and his daughter among his acquaintances in a Californian bar.
Vanessa Bryant alleges that it has violated the right to privacy of the victims and “great pain” has been caused to the relatives, for which it demands a economic compensation to the county whose amount has not yet been specified but which, according to the American sports press, could reach “several million dollars“.
In addition, during her testimony, the widow of “Mamba” assured that suffers emotional stress for “fear” that she or her children will find in the future “ihorrible images of loved ones on the internet“.
In fact, she couldn’t hold back her tears describing how she had to “leave the house“So her family wouldn’t see her cry when she read in an article in the Los Angeles Times that the photos were supposedly being spread online.
This lawsuit was filed jointly by Vanessa Bryant y Chris Chestera widowed man who lost his wife and daughter, also 13 years old, in this incident on January 26, 2020 in which 9 people died.
During the opening of the trial last week, Vanessa Bryant’s attorney, Luis Liargued that the photographs were not taken for any official purpose for the investigation of the accident, but to become “visual gossip“and humiliate the victims.
“They were shared repeatedly with people who had absolutely no reason to receive them,” Li argued.
For its part, the defense argued that the photos have not appeared on the internet during the two and a half years since the accident and that, therefore, there would be no reason to think that something like this could happen now.
Several involved have also taken the stand in recent days and their version is based on the fact that They already deleted the photographs of the accident site and that they had shared with other people.
Los Angeles County attorneys felt that by permanently deleting the photos, they are guaranteed not to come to light.
last year, Vanessa Bryant reached an economic agreement with the helicopter company he had sued for the accident that killed Los Angeles Lakers legend Gianna and seven others.
In February 2021, the investigators claimed that the helicopter pilot was disoriented due to the fog and maintained that he did not follow the established piloting protocol when flying in dense cloud cover.
Kobe Bryant is the fourth all-time leading scorer of the NBA (33,643 points) and a legend for the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won five rings displaying a tireless competitive spirit.
