Pippa Middleton under fire for 'gun' incident

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   NATALIE MORALES, anchor: And now to a strange incident involving the Duchess of Cambridge 's sister Pippa Middleton and what appears to be a gun and tabloid photographers in Paris . NBC 's Michelle Kosinski with the pictures now and the story. Michelle , good morning.

   MICHELLE KOSINSKI reporting: Hi, Natalie. It was an April in Paris weekend full of parties for Pippa , costumes, aristocrats, some of the most eligible bachelors around. But now some not-so-pretty pictures on the first page of The Sun newspaper , including what may or may not be a real gun. As Pippa Middleton enjoys a sunny ride through Paris with three male friends, take a close look at the driver there in traffic pointing what looks like a gun at a photographer.

   Ms. CAMILLA TOMINEY (NBC News Royal Expert): Perhaps they were being pursued, perhaps they were angry, perhaps they were just showing off, but it certainly doesn't look good.

   KOSINSKI: But even if the gun is fake, this could be more serious than a stunt in very bad taste only weeks after firearm attacks in France on a school and some soldiers left seven people dead, four of them children. Pippa 's Paris weekend was a fine one indeed until now, spending time with three very lovely, very wealthy bachelors. Escorted by Antoine de Tavernost , son of a television mogul, she dressed up in period costume, kind of, at least from the waist up, while other guests went all out. This for the birthday party of old friend Vicomte Arthur de Soultrait , entrepreneur and owner of a popular fashion label, whom Pippa also spent time with, and his handsome brother, Marcy . It's not really clear who the three men in the convertible are with her, but at least one of them may have some serious explaining to do to police. So The Sun has this as their big exclusive and they claim that the photographer at whom this gun was allegedly pointed is thinking about filing a formal police complaint, but so far prosecutors and police in Paris say they know nothing about this. Back to you, Natalie .

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