One of the 24 journalists were hit by police rubber bullets, while others stated that they received the protective equipment they used confiscated by the police. After the fourth weekend of demonstrations, Saturday 8 december, the newspaper Libération compiled evidence from a number of reporters who claim they were damaged when police ”targeted attacks against them,” reports the nyhetsradiokanalen France Info, who on Friday took part of the atmosphere. The channel’s employees certify that the nyhetsmediernas working conditions during the current day was ”very difficult”.
a week after the events on the way to the office of the prosecutor, Parispolisen and the department of the interior. In the letter, explains Jérémie Assous, the lawyer representing the 24, that the intention is that a civil process to sue the police force.
”the work of Journalists, the scope of the principle of the rule of law, have been hampered and hindered by those whose only mission is to maintain public order,” writes the lawyer, inter alia, in the document that includes five pages.
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