The 24-year-old reaffirmed Wednesday that she had ignored the presence of live ammunition on the set. “We are convinced that there has been sabotage and that Hannah is the victim of a set-up“, writes his lawyer Jason Bowles in a statement transmitted to AFP. He calls for investigators to fully investigate the presence of this” live ammunition, how they got into the box of dummy bullets and who put them there. “Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies dismissed the idea of a plot in an ABC television interview.”We have no proof“, did she say.
For his part, assistant director David Halls told police that he “should have checked“that all cartridges in the revolver used by Alec Baldwin were fictitious but admitted he had “not done“.
Alec Baldwin wants cops on set
Police officers should be present on all shoots that use firearms, actor Alec Baldwin said last Monday. “Every film or television shoot that uses firearms, whether dummy or not, should have a police officer on set paid by the production to ensure the safety of the weapons.“, he wrote on Twitter.
The police investigation is still ongoing and, if no arrests have taken place, criminal prosecution is not excluded if liability is established.
Since the drama, voices have multiplied to demand better control of firearms on set, or even their outright abandonment in favor of dummy weapons and special effects added later. A petition to this effect had collected 110,000 signatures Monday and star actor Dwayne Johnson, one of the highest paid in the world, pledged last week to no longer use live firearms in his films.