The information department of France Télévisions has announced a complaint. – LODI Franck / SIPA
A journalist from France 3 was injured on Saturday by a punch given to her camera during a report in a village in the Ardèche, according to the management of the channel which denounces an “unbearable aggression”. The journalist from the Aubenas office was about to do an interview on the Vans market when a man intervened, shouting: “Aren’t you ashamed to answer them?” “, Then hit the camera which violently struck the journalist in the face, relates France 3.
The attacker fled before being arrested by the gendarmes.
A complaint should be filed
“The information department of France Televisions, the management of the regional network of France 3 and the regional management of France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes strongly condemn this unbearable attack on a journalist in the exercise of his business to inform and will file a complaint, ”according to a press release.
The France 3 team was reporting at Les Vans, a week after a festive gathering gathered 2,000 people around a concert by the group HK and the Saltimbanks, including the song To dance again has become an anthem of protest against the sanitary restrictions. A new rally was announced on Saturday morning in Les Vans and the police had been mobilized in number by the prefecture of the department.