CCTV shows moment paparazzo is chased by Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne’s Brit film-maker friends

A photojournalist who broke his arm while being chased by some British filmmakers in Buenos Aires last weekend has claimed that actress Margot Robbie singled him out for a beating.

Grainy CCTV footage seemingly shows the moment Pedro Alberto Orquera was chased by British film producer Josey MacNamara and Jac Hopkins, who nudged the paparazzo when they saw him snap photos of star friends Robbie and Cara Delevingne as they left a famous restaurant in 3 hours. on Sunday morning.

Orquera, 61, said the pair chased him outside the restaurant, trying to break his camera before kicking it onto the concrete.

He suffered several cuts and broke his arm in the attack and now claims the Australian glamor star has ordered her friends to track him down.

“Mrs Robbie, who I could identify, touched the shoulder of one of her security personnel and pointed her finger at me. It was then that several people beat me up and the chase started,” he told The Sun.

“My life was saved by a miracle, I don’t know what would have happened if I had fallen with my head on the ground, with the speed with which those people were chasing me,” Orquera told Argentine outlet TN separately.

The CCTV clip released yesterday showed a man dressed in black running away from a second man in a white top.

The pursuer appears to kick his fleeing victim, causing him to lose his balance and crash to the ground, narrowly dodging an oncoming vehicle – although there is no footage of the beating Orquera claims to have suffered.

However, the photojournalist’s lawyer Matias Morla told The Sun that a lawsuit will see Robbie become a defendant rather than a witness, given her active involvement in ordering her British companions to run after his client.

MacNamara and Hopkins were arrested by police and taken for questioning after the act of aggression, while Robbie and Delevingne fled the scene.

After spending a night in the cells, the filmmakers emerged yesterday with coats thrown over their heads to protect their faces, and were led by police into a waiting car that took them away.

Morla told The Sun the couple were charged with causing “deliberate serious injuries” and had their passports waived.

Orquera, meanwhile, was placed in a neck brace and taken on a stretcher to the nearby Argerich Hospital in the Argentine capital, where he remains after initial treatment and awaits surgery.

The impact of the fall shattered his right arm and he suffered a series of cuts.

“I started running from them because they beat me,” Orquera told The Sun. “When I ran away from them, they kicked me hard, so my camera went up in the air and I fell to the ground and injured my arm.”

Witnesses are said to have called emergency services when the argument broke out after it became clear that Orquera had suffered a nasty injury.

The A-list actresses had gotten into a car in front of Argentine celebrity chef Francis Mallmann’s restaurant around 3 a.m. Sunday morning when the Orquera incident took place.

The photojournalist’s presence angered MacNamara and Hopkins, who ran after him and eventually caught up with the fleeing paparazzo, knocking him off balance and knocking him to the ground.

Orquera told TN he was able to protect his equipment and the precious shots he had taken, but at a considerable cost.

‘They never took my stuff from me…when I fell to the ground’ [the camera] was destroyed, but I was able to salvage the equipment.’

He said his arm was seriously injured and it is unknown if he will regain full use of the limb.

“I have a cast on my right arm, my arm is very compromised and I don’t know if I will lose it,” he claimed.

Meanwhile, the police took the British filmmakers in for questioning, after which they appeared in court on the orders of the Public Prosecution Service for inflicting ‘serious injuries’.

A police report seen by The sun shows that MacNamara and Hopkins told officers that Orquera was “responsible for his own injuries” because the two actresses had not given permission to be photographed.

Robbie and Delevingne, meanwhile, chose to leave the filmmakers behind and fly to southern Argentina a few hours after the attack.

Orquera confirmed that he plans to file a lawsuit against his attackers, claiming that the injuries he sustained as a result of their aggression will prevent him from working.

‘The most unfortunate’ [about the attack] is that it makes me immobile, unable to work or move,’ Orquera said.

“I won’t be able to do any more work and I don’t know if I’ll get my arm back the way it should be.”

MailOnline has reached out to Robbie and Delevingne for comment on the alleged incident.

The starlets reportedly became close in 2016 when they worked on the DC comic-inspired Suicide Squad movie, in which Robbie, 32, gained significant fame for her portrayal of the feisty Harley Quinn, while Delevingne played a character called Enchantress.

The pair had traveled to Argentina after attending the fashion week events in Paris early last week, and Robbie was spotted in Argentina on Friday, stopping to snap photos with some fans.

The attack on Orquera during the starlets’ stay in Argentina comes less than a month after Robbie was pictured leaving her close friend’s West Hollywood home, seemingly in tears, amid rumors British supermodel Delevingne was struggling with health issues. .

Delevingne, 30, failed to show up at the launch of her fashion collection honoring the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, which was held in early September at the chic restaurant Saga in New York City’s financial district.

Also, Delevingne did not attend the Emmy Awards on September 13, where her castmates in the Only Murders in the Building series were nominated for a series of awards.

That’s what a source close to the Delevingne family told me The sun that the star was struggling and lately had “lit the candle on both sides.”