14 minutes ago32-year-old French journalist killed in Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Efforts to evacuate civilians to the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine were suspended Monday after an armoured transport vehicle was hit by a Russian missile, killing a French journalist. The news was announced by regional Governor Serhiy Gaidai. The slain journalist is 32-year-old Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff. He worked six years for the broadcaster [...]
The slain journalist is 32-year-old Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff. He worked six years for French news broadcaster “BFM TV” The journalist was killed in eastern Ukraine while covering an evacuation operation under way by Ukrainian authorities near Sevierodonetsk, a key city in the Donbas region.
Governor Gidai wrote on the telegram app that the shell fragments had pierced the armor of the vehicle, killing the accredited French journalist.
In a Twitter message, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote that he (Frédéric Lecler) c-Imhoff) “was in Ukraine to show the reality of war. When he was shot to death, he was on a humanitarian bus, along with civilians forced to leave the country, to escape Russian bombs”.
Macron expressed condolences to family, relatives and journalist's colleagues and offered France's unconditional support “ “, as he wrote, for “at the difficult information mission in Ukraine”.
France's new Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called for investigation into the journalist's death.
“Finance requires that an investigation be conducted as soon as possible, as well as transparency on the circumstances of this drama”, a statement by Colonna said.
