A journalist from Ouest-France was prescribed three days of total incapacity for work after being "
beaten
up" while covering the night from Friday to Saturday of mortar fire in Alençon.
“
He was taking pictures and videos in the Perseigne district when around fifteen hooded individuals
” took him to task, the editorial staff of Ouest-France told AFP.
"
The journalist thinks he was taken for a policeman, and when he said he was a journalist, the attack continued, these facts are intolerable
", denounces the regional daily.
The victim, punched and kicked while on the ground, received stitches in the head.
A complaint is scheduled for Monday for these events in a district of Alençon, Perseigne, plagued for a year by urban violence against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
