Gun In Photo With Pippa Middleton Said To Be A Toy

First Published: April 17, 2012 10:09 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium

PARIS, France -- Caption Pippa Middleton is spotted in London on August 17, 2011Pippa Middleton went to Paris for a friend’s birthday party and the British media are agog over an alleged gun flashed at paparazzi by one of her companions.

But a spokesman for a French fashion designer photographed in a car with Middleton, sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, and a pistol-brandishing driver says it was a toy gun, and just “a game” with paparazzi.

Aymeric de Drouas, spokesman for a French clothing company owned by Arthur de Soultrait, told The Associated Press the gun in a photo published by The Sun newspaper was a toy and the photographers knew it.

Drouas says Middleton and Soultrait told him they were joking with photographers who’d been trailing them throughout Middleton’s visit for Soultrait’s birthday party.

Paris police say they’ve received no complaint and are not investigating.

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