Vanessa Bryant lost the man of her life and her daughter in terrible circumstances, and even today, she cannot mourn quietly. The cause ? Despicable photos of the corpses of the crash victims circulating. Kobe Bryant’s widow said in court on Friday (August 19) that she was devastated when she learned that rescuers had taken photos of the crash site of the helicopter in which her husband, daughter and seven other people were taken. found death. Very moved, Vanessa Bryant says she lives in fear that these photos will emerge online. “It’s like Covid-19. Once it spreads, there’s no stopping it.”
Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others died in this helicopter crash on January 26, 2020, west of Los Angeles, California. Vanessa Bryant says she suffered emotional distress when Los Angeles County police and firefighters photographed the crash site and victims before sharing the snaps with others. She is claiming damages from Los Angeles County in an amount that has not been disclosed.
His complaint was associated with that of Chris Chester, whose wife and thirteen-year-old daughter also perished in the accident. Los Angeles County lawyers do not dispute that photos were taken – a firefighter has already confessed – but assure that they were never made public and that they have since been deleted. At the helm on Thursday, Chris Chester expressed his disbelief upon learning of the existence of these photos. “I had protected my family from the detailsof the crash, he said.And there, I thought to myself that there would be photos of the remains“on the Internet, he recalled, explaining that he asked his sons not to look for them on the web.
Mira Hashmall, a Los Angeles County attorney, recalled that authorities had “worked tirelessly to prevent these photos of the crash site from falling into the public domain“.”More than two and a half years later, no photos of the county have appeared in the media, none can be found online, and the plaintiffs admit they have never seen them“Other families of victims were awarded $2.5 million in compensation last year in the same case. An investigation concluded that the helicopter pilot was responsible for the accident, a “error of judgmentt “having entailed its”disorientation” in the middle of a thick fog.
The death at 41 of Kobe Bryant, emblematic player of the Los Angeles Lakers and considered one of the best basketball players in the history of this sport, had caused great emotion around the world.