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Journalist attacked in Reims: the suburbs, "hostile terrain" with low noise for the media

2021-03-01T21:37:20.539Z


TRIBUNE - The photoreporter at L'Union-L'Ardennais Christian Lantenois was violently beaten and left unconscious on Saturday during a report in a difficult district of Reims. Journalists must continue to be able to do essential information work, underlines Christophe ...


What is Christian Lantenois' aggression the name of?

A hatred against institutions (to which the media are wrongly assimilated) or a specific hatred against journalists?

The investigation opened for attempted murder of the photographer of L'Union L'Ardennais in Reims will provide explanations.

What has happened is an extreme attack on journalism on French soil, but it is arguably also a symptom of a wider split in fundamental principles.

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Assault of a photographer in Reims: "The attackers targeted him because he was a journalist"

It is obvious that in certain working-class neighborhoods, a similar hatred targets those whose mission is to build the future society (teachers), to protect the current society (police officers), to ensure the life and health of its members (firefighters, doctors).

This hatred also targets those whose mission is to inform it, that is to say, in the etymological sense, to give shape to reality (journalists).

Those who hit the reporter on the head intend not only to escape the rules,

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Source: lefigaro

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