BFMTV will file a complaint after the attack on two of its journalists on Tuesday in Paris while they were covering the demonstration against the pension reform, we learned this Wednesday from the continuous news channel.
“BFMTV strongly condemns the attack on its journalists and reaffirms its commitment to freedom of the press and the right to information”, it first indicated on its website. The channel and the two journalists in question, Jérémie Paire and Baptiste Keita, will file a complaint, BFMTV then told AFP.
“Kicks and punches” received by journalists
According to their account, published on the channel’s website, they were taken to task twice, first in the Place de la République, then around the Place de la Nation, receiving in particular “kicks and punches “.
According to the journalists, “there was the desire to steal the camera”. The intervention of “a participant in the demonstration and (of) a few other people” finally allowed “their exfiltration” of the procession, they also reported.