(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF, on the morning of 1 April 1998, Diane Grimonet and Francine Bajande, two news photographers working for the French daily papers “Liberation” and “LâHumanite” respectively, were stopped for questioning while covering a demonstration at the Charles de Gaulles airport in Paris. The demonstration was against the expulsion by plane of […]
(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF, on the morning of 1 April 1998, Diane
Grimonet and Francine Bajande, two news photographers working for the French
daily papers “Liberation” and “LâHumanite” respectively, were stopped for
questioning while covering a demonstration at the Charles de Gaulles airport
in Paris. The demonstration was against the expulsion by plane of foreigners
living in France without proper papers.
Although Grimonet and Bajande showed their press cards to police, they and
some demonstrators were taken to the Department of Immigration Control for
questioning. The two photographers were released three hours later.
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Mr. Jean-Pierre Chevenement
Minister of the Interior
Paris
Fax: +43 59 89 50
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