The CID has seized the equipment of two foreign independent film makers and questioned them after they recorded footage on tourism and development in Kalpitiya.
Belgium independent film maker Guilhem de Crombrugghe and his French girlfriend Marie Ferdinands were in Kalpitiya over the weekend for the shoot after obtaining approval from the Sri Lanka Tourist Development Authority.
Crombrugghe told the Colombo Gazette that a team of CID officers had questioned them in Colombo yesterday and their equipment was seized today over suspicion that they were producing a video to discredit Sri Lanka.
The couple is now at a hotel in Negombo and a CID officer has been placed outside the hotel room while investigations continue.
Crombrugghe told the Colombo Gazette that they merely interviewed people in Kalpitiya and Puttalam on tourism and development related issues and had even interviewed Nalaka Godahewa from the Tourist Board.
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Belgium independent film maker Guilhem de Crombrugghe and his French girlfriend Marie Ferdinands were in Kalpitiya over the weekend for the shoot after obtaining approval from the Sri Lanka Tourist Development Authority.
Crombrugghe told the Colombo Gazette that a team of CID officers had questioned them in Colombo yesterday and their equipment was seized today over suspicion that they were producing a video to discredit Sri Lanka.
The couple is now at a hotel in Negombo and a CID officer has been placed outside the hotel room while investigations continue.
Crombrugghe told the Colombo Gazette that they merely interviewed people in Kalpitiya and Puttalam on tourism and development related issues and had even interviewed Nalaka Godahewa from the Tourist Board.
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