PNL bus accident: a complaint filed by Ouest France after the assault of a photographer

Sunday, May 8, the regional daily

revealed that the tour bus of the rap group PNL had been the victim of a road accident in the morning, causing three minor injuries.

Later in the day, the same daily announced that its photographer, present on the scene two hours after the events, had been attacked by passengers on the bus, asking him to erase the photos taken on the spot.

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On his way back from Paris where he had covered the final of the French Football Cup, the journalist stopped on the edge of the A11 motorway, near Vair-sur-Loire (44), where the bus injured was still lying down, and took out his camera.

It was then that he was taken to task by several passengers on the bus, without being able to identify among them one of the members of the Parisian rapper duo, Ademo and NOS

seat

“Infringement of the right to inform”

“I couldn't do anything, the gendarmes were able to prevent it from degenerating but I thought they were going to beat me up”

, testifies the photographer.

The attackers then asked him to delete the pictures taken and in turn took a picture of him,

, he says.

Arnaud Wajdzik, editorial director of

in Loire-Atlantique strongly condemned the facts on Twitter, calling them an

.

He also indicated the newspaper's management's willingness to file a complaint.

The group meanwhile resumed the road of its tour and performed, the same evening, on the stage of the Zénith de Nantes.

The duo, very discreet on social networks as in the press, has not, to date, communicated on the accident or on the attack on the photographer of

.

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