Three photographers who took pictures of Princess Diana and her Egyptian boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed, at the time of the accident that took their lives in Paris in 1997, are being tried for invading privacy. The three photographers were accused of taking photos considered inappropriate for the accident victims before and after their deaths among the wreckage of the Mercedes car. The trial was built on a new French law that considers the interior of the car a private place even if the car is driving on a public road.
The above is a piece of news that was published verbatim on the official news site BBC specifically on 21/11/2002 in response to a complaint filed by Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed against the paparazzi, who were notorious for their constant annoying and chasing celebrities, to try those who he pointed out were responsible for the accident that killed his son and his companion at the time, Princess Diana, and the driver.
With the advent of smartphones that do not require cameras to be carried, which represent a burden on the photographer, we began to see the category of paparazzi in the Arab world where the matter with them has crossed the boundaries of adventure to savagery in dealing with the desire for money and fame (and trend riding) as they say.
Funerals, in particular, have become a field for making money and reaching the top of search engines. Behind the sound of mosques or church bells, there are tears that no longer cry these photographers, but have become a goal and objective focused on the necks of all attendees. Here, you will find no difference between a famous artist, a young artist, or a public figure that no one knows all her crime is that she is close to the deceased. Just show up in the frame and you become a target.
After crossing the amazement barrier, why do these people commit this crime by invading privacy in the extreme weakness of a human, no matter how strong and steadfast he is, the number of pages claiming that the certain news is with them and that the exclusive pictures are on their screens made the race insane and money now rules the consciences of the majority, until the matter became nauseating, especially recently.
Today, the privacy hunters have turned into the prey that tops the trend, and the biggest witness to this is the case of the two girls who attended the funeral of the artist Mostafa Darwish (may God have mercy on him), and the picture that was taken of them in a state of unjustified and illogical laughter, and next to them in the same frame, the brother of the deceased crosses, he is devastated and leans on his companion from the enormity of the shock of his brother's sudden death.
The two girls topped a trend of the worst trends, what was circulated about them is horrifying and the amount of insults that were poured on them exceeds the imagination. The picture is very provocative, but it is realistic and needs to be studied.
Yesterday you were hunting celebrities, crossing over their sorrows to reach money and fame, today with the same hands and the same weapon, you are being monitored and hunted to become a palatable prey for the whole world.
No one is safe anymore, the small hole that blinks several times captures your whispers to tell a well-knit story. It is the only one aware of the amount of lying in it and unfortunately leaving the matter to the appreciation of humans was never a correct choice.
I don't claim that I wasn't hurt by what the two girls were exposed to, but it is an incident with a futuristic vision of what we are facing, but it also resembles the forest of the foreign film (The Hunger Games), with the difference that there are no innocents here. All the hunters are guilty. Beware, you self-proclaimed media folks, you're now in the frame.
The incident with the two girls is alarming, but it also serves as a cautionary tale for the future. It resembles the dystopian environment of the foreign film "The Hunger Games", but with one key difference: there are no innocents here. All the hunters are guilty. So, beware all self-proclaimed media figures, you are now within the frame.
The relentless pursuit of news, regardless of the cost to privacy and dignity, has consequences. Like the paparazzi who once hunted celebrities and are now on trial, those who invade the privacy of others for the sake of views and likes can find themselves becoming the subject of public scrutiny and condemnation.
In a world where everyone has a camera in their pocket and the line between public and private is increasingly blurred, the respect for the personal space and grief of others is paramount. It's a lesson that's painfully learned by those who thought they were the hunters, only to find out they have become the prey.
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