Tight security ahead of Clinton wedding
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July 24, 2010, Saturday
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FOR the curious looking to snap a picture or wander the grounds where the former United States president's daughter Chelsea Clinton is expected to get married, police have some advice -- don't or face arrest.
State troopers working with the US Secret Service say they have had more calls than usual related to the posh Astor Estate in Rhinebeck, New York State, an upstate town where two Norwegian journalists were charged with trespassing as they snapped photos at the estate's gate.
The journalists were on assignment, covering Chelsea Clinton's expected wedding at the estate for the Oslo newspaper Verdens Gang.
Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky there on July 31, media reports say.
State police Major Michael A. Kopy said officers will be diligent about keeping the estate secure.
"We're aware of the visit by the former president of the United States and are working with the US Secret Service as we do with all visits by protectees of the Secret Service," Kopy said. "We're responding to calls (around the estate). Anybody who is located on the grounds of the estate will be arrested and prosecuted."
Just ask Thomas Bjorn Nilsson and Kjerste Sortland. They were charged with a violation after they were stopped Wednesday afternoon on the estate, in a picturesque town along the Hudson River, 145 kilometers north of New York City, police said.
Kopy said Nilsson, a photographer based in New York City, and Sortland, an editor based in Norway, identified themselves as journalists and were taking pictures. He didn't know if the images were confiscated and wasn't aware whether they mentioned the Clinton wedding.
The two arrested journalists are due in court on August 12.
In Oslo, Helje Solberg, managing editor at Verdens Gang, said police went overboard when Nilsson and Sortland tried to take pictures of the gate. She said they were not on the property.
"We did not realize it was forbidden to take the picture of the gate of the house where the Clinton wedding is to be," she said.
Solberg said the paper will pay the fine -- in New York, trespassing is a violation punishable by up to 15 days in jail and/or a fine up to US$250 -- even though "we see this as an overreaction."
"The Clinton wedding has a public interest," Solberg said.
State troopers working with the US Secret Service say they have had more calls than usual related to the posh Astor Estate in Rhinebeck, New York State, an upstate town where two Norwegian journalists were charged with trespassing as they snapped photos at the estate's gate.
The journalists were on assignment, covering Chelsea Clinton's expected wedding at the estate for the Oslo newspaper Verdens Gang.
Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky there on July 31, media reports say.
State police Major Michael A. Kopy said officers will be diligent about keeping the estate secure.
"We're aware of the visit by the former president of the United States and are working with the US Secret Service as we do with all visits by protectees of the Secret Service," Kopy said. "We're responding to calls (around the estate). Anybody who is located on the grounds of the estate will be arrested and prosecuted."
Just ask Thomas Bjorn Nilsson and Kjerste Sortland. They were charged with a violation after they were stopped Wednesday afternoon on the estate, in a picturesque town along the Hudson River, 145 kilometers north of New York City, police said.
Kopy said Nilsson, a photographer based in New York City, and Sortland, an editor based in Norway, identified themselves as journalists and were taking pictures. He didn't know if the images were confiscated and wasn't aware whether they mentioned the Clinton wedding.
The two arrested journalists are due in court on August 12.
In Oslo, Helje Solberg, managing editor at Verdens Gang, said police went overboard when Nilsson and Sortland tried to take pictures of the gate. She said they were not on the property.
"We did not realize it was forbidden to take the picture of the gate of the house where the Clinton wedding is to be," she said.
Solberg said the paper will pay the fine -- in New York, trespassing is a violation punishable by up to 15 days in jail and/or a fine up to US$250 -- even though "we see this as an overreaction."
"The Clinton wedding has a public interest," Solberg said.
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