(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is expressing concern further to the attack of three journalists from the television station Télé Bocal. According to RSF’s information, on 24 January 1999, Anne Mazauric, Bastien Mehl and Julien Teruel, reporters and cameramen with the television station Télé Bocal (local station broadcast in Paris’ twentieth district), were attacked while filming a […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is expressing concern further to the attack of three
journalists from the television station Télé Bocal. According to RSF’s
information, on 24 January 1999, Anne Mazauric, Bastien Mehl and Julien
Teruel, reporters and cameramen with the television station Télé Bocal
(local station broadcast in Paris’ twentieth district), were attacked while
filming a public mass held by the organisation “Action française” at the
place de la Concorde in Paris. Members of the association’s security service
forcibly removed their video tape and manhandled them. The tape was
destroyed in front of the journalists. Mazauric was hit in the face and her
camera was damaged. After the police’s intervention, two individuals from
the security service were detained and taken to the Faubourg Saint-Honoré
police station in Paris.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to the Justice Minister:satisfaction that a complaint for “blows and injuries” and “insults” was
filed by the Télé Bocal journalists
developments with the case
Appeals To
Ms Elisabeth Guigou
Minister of Justice
France
Fax: +33 1 44 77 60 40
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