Actor attacked cop
2003-08-07 12:04
France - Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has been given a one-month suspended prison sentence and fined €1 500 for head-butting a policeman at a casino in the Paris suburbs, court officials said on Thursday.
Sharif, 70, had accumulated losses of around €30 000 at the Enghien-les-Bains casino on the night of July 5 when he got into an argument with a croupier, a court in the town of Cergy 30 kilometres northwest of Paris was told on Wednesday.
When a policeman intervened, Sharif insulted and then head-butted him, leaving him off work for two days. The court ordered the actor to pay his victim €300 in damages.
The star of Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia told the court he could not recall the incident, officials said. However the scene had been caught on the casino's security cameras.