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France: Protestors Group Attack Two Women Journalists Covering Violent Demonstrations
French journalists hit with crowbars while covering violent uprising after police kill teenager.
France: Police Strangles Journalist In Response To Her Press Card
Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) officer attacks a woman journalist on her way home and strangles the reporter after seeing her press card.
France: Police Violently Remove Journalist Harmony Pondy-Nyaga from Environmental Protest
Journalist Harmony Pondy-Nyaga was forcibly removed by police while filming an environmental protest in Paris.
France: Attempted Assassination Of Environmental Reporter Morgan Large Must Be Investigated
Car of French journalist Morgan Large sabotaged second time in two years.
France: Journalist Chloé Gence Violently Arrested While Covering Protests – Behavior Of Police Unacceptable
Le Media TV’s Chloé Gence was manhandled, strangled, and forcibly arrested by police while covering pension reform protests.
France: Art Thief Attacks France3 Journalists Covering His Trial – Aggressor Should Be Charged
Journalists Tiphaine Niederlaender and Christelle Rewiako assaulted by art thief Stéphane Breitwieser.
France: Threats Targeting Journalists Reporting On Far-Right - CFWIJ Is Alarmed At Escalation
Attacks against journalists covering far right and refugees are escalating in France.
France: Journalist Maria Malagardis On Trial; CFWIJ Demands The Court Dismisses All Legal Proceedings
Maria Malagardis is on trial over alleged public insult against Aloys Ntiwiragabo, the former head of military intelligence in Rwanda.
France: CFWIJ Alarmed Following AFP’s Team Attack By Anti-Vax Protesters
Two video journalists, including a woman working for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) were attacked during an anti-vax protests in Paris.
France: CFWIJ Condemns The Physical Attack Against Photographer Estelle Ruiz
Photographer Estelle Ruiz was physically assaulted by protesters during an anti-vax demonstration in Nantes in France.
France: Eight Survivors Of Sexual Misconduct By Patrick Poivre D'arvor Come Forward
Eight women journalists have lifted anonymity from the allegations of sexual misconduct against newsreader Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.
France: CFWIJ Condemns The Intimidation Tactics Employed Against Lisa Noyal And Her Colleague Rémi-Kenzo Pagès
Journalists Lisa Noyal and Rémi-Kenzo Pagès were restricted from questioning Mayor of Aubervilliers, Karine Francelet regarding a demolition project in her region of jurisdiction. Francelet’s security team threatened legal action and destroyed the journalists’ property for merely attempting to do their job. This is not the first time such an incident has occurred. The journalists have also been previously discouraged from pursuing the story and the constant attempts to silence the noise around the issue now appears extremely concerning.
France: CFWIJ Denounces The Intimidation From The State Of Venezuela Against Journalist Andreina Mujica
Andreina Mujica, a Franco-Venezuelan journalist was called by the French police against a complaint filed by the counsel of Venezuela on June 8. The complaint against Andreina was filed by Venezuelan counsel Glenna Cabello, who accused the journalist of posting threats to her life in a Facebook post on March 12, 2019. As per Andreina, the Facebook post in question was done by her to demand the release of a journalist Luis Carlos, captured by the state.
France: CFWIJ Is Monitoring The Criminal Complaint Filed By Journalist Isabelle Kersimon
French journalist Isabelle Krismon has filed criminal defamation complaints against unknown people who attacked her on social media. The journalist was following the investigation on a political movement “La Printemps Republican”. Her investigative stories were published on 4, 8, and 25th February in an online magazine, Slate. CFWIJ is following the situation of the defamation charges filed by Isabelle Kersimon.
France: CFWIJ Horrified At The Death Threats Towards Journalist Maty Fall
Journalist Maty Fall, who is originally from Senegal, was sent death threats online while she was covering the event in her home country. The sheer volume of violence threats and abuses that she received caught the attention of local journalist unions and other civil society groups who have extended her support and condemned the campaign against her. Maty has since filed a complaint with the police.