{"id":1804292,"date":"2023-01-12T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804292"},"modified":"2023-01-12T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:06:00","slug":"armageddon-director-michael-bay-facing-charges-in-italy-he-says-he-didnt-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/armageddon-director-michael-bay-facing-charges-in-italy-he-says-he-didnt-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Armageddon\u2019 Director Michael Bay Facing Charges In Italy \u2014 He Says He Didn\u2019t Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farmageddon-director-michael-bay-facing-charges-in-italy-he-says-he-didnt-do-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Producer and director of blockbuster movies <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-out-hillary-hollywood-gets-benghazi-story-chase-stephens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Bay<\/a> is facing charges in Italy after he allegedly killed a pigeon while filming in Rome \u2014 but the \u201cArmageddon\u201d Director claims he didn&#8217;t do anything of the kind.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/michael-bay-italy-pigeon-killing-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> The Wrap published Thursday&#8217;s statement by Italian authorities that a homing Pigeon was killed at the set. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/megan-fox-clarifies-michael-bay-comments-says-he-never-assaulted-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay<\/a> He was filming Netflix&#8217;s action thriller \u201c6 Underground\u201d in 2018 \u2013 and they are attempting to hold Bay responsible.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Michael Bay faces charges in Italy for killing a pigeon while filming the Netflix blockbuster 2018. &#8220;6 Underground&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDiJ0bpaYL\">https:\/\/t.co\/tDiJ0bpaYL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheWrap (@TheWrap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWrap\/status\/1613672295251279872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bay said to The Wrap that no animal would ever be hurt. \u201cI am a well-known animal lover and major animal activist. No animal involved in the production was injured or harmed. Or on any other production I\u2019ve worked on\u00a0in the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Italian authorities claim that they have photographic proof that the homing pigeon was killed after being struck by a dolly on the set \u2014 and because Bay was the director in charge of the film set, they intend to hold him responsible for killing the bird. Bay stated that the video evidence from his team would show the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have clear video evidence, a multitude of witnesses, and safety officers that exonerates us from these claims. And disproves their one paparazzi photo \u2014 which gives a false story,\u201d Bay stated that he believed he would prevail after all evidence had been presented in court.<\/p>\n<p>Bay\u2019s attorneys have attempted to get the case thrown out, but the Italian authorities have only offered him a chance to pay a fine to settle the matter. Bay declined their offer and said that he couldn&#8217;t accept a plea agreement that required him to admit that he had hurt an animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was offered by the Italian authorities a chance to settle this matter by paying a small fine, but I declined to do so because I would not plead guilty to having harmed an animal,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Italian law prohibits the killing, capturing, or harming of any wild birds \u2013 and pigeons are considered to be a protected species both in Italy and all across the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster movie director and producer Michael Bay is facing charges in Italy after he allegedly killed a pigeon while filming in Rome \u2014 but the \u201cArmageddon\u201d director says he did nothing of the sort. According to a report published Thursday by entertainment site The Wrap, Italian authorities claim that a homing pigeon was killed on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1804295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[14684,8324,4035,6202,4352,6350,4528,14683,5177,3618,6195],"class_list":["post-1804292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-armageddon","tag-bay","tag-charges","tag-daily","tag-didnt","tag-director","tag-facing","tag-italy","tag-michael","tag-riot","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}