Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the death this Monday of the French journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff in Ukraine and held directly responsible Vladimir Putin for the deliberate attacks by his troops on informants in that conflict.
The 32-year-old cameraman was riding in the front of an almost empty bus inside a humanitarian convoy to evacuate Ukrainian civilians in the Luhansk region.
“The bus had the ‘humanitarian convoy’ sign very visible and was shot” by artillery and “a shell fragment caused the death” of the informant, the RSF general secretary explained in statements to the press. Christopher Deloire.
The victim, from the television network all news BFMTV, was traveling with a partner, Maxime Brandstaetterwho was slightly injured, and with the Ukrainian assistant Oksana Leutawho was unharmed, indicated the medium.
This is the eighth journalist killed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the second of French nationality and the first who worked for a medium from this country, he recalled.