Model Gisele Bundchen's bodyguards face trial for shooting at photographers

THREE former body guards of Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen and football star husband Tom Brady have gone on trial for shooting at photographers.

The shooting took place in 2009 as the celebrity couple celebrated their wedding and reception at a seaside home in Costa Rica.

The charge is attempted homicide. Two of the bodyguards are Costa Rican and the third is from Colombia.

Yuri Cortez, a Salvadoran who works for AFP, and Costa Rican colleague Carlos Aviles had been trying to take pictures of the wedding.

The bodyguards confronted them and demanded in vain that the photographers hand over the memory cards from their cameras.

As the photographers drove away, at least one of the bodyguards opened fire, according to the complaint again them.

Neither of the photographers was hurt.

Bodyguards shot the back windshield of the car used by AFP photographer Yuri Cortez and local photographer Carlos Aviles as they covered the Costa Rican wedding of Gisele Bundchen and US football star Tom Brady in 2009. Picture: AFP/Yuri Cortez

As the trial opened on Monday, the judge granted the defendants' request that no pictures of them be taken. All three have also decided to exercise their right not to testify.