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© Photo: Geoffroy van der Hasselt / AFP Vaccalant opponents descended on the street, Saturday, January 15, 2022, in Paris and in several cities of France. They were 54,000 throughout France, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

A team of the France-Presse agency was threatened with death and assaulted on Saturday, January 15, 2022, in Paris, during a vaccination anti-pass rally organized by the Patriotic Movement of Florian Philippot. One of the security agents who wanted to protect journalists was injured in the head.

Saturday, January 15, 2022, Journalists from the France Presse Agency (AFP) were assaulted during the anti-passenger manifestation, organized in Paris . The team, composed of two reporter reporter (JRI), was accompanied by two security officers to cover the gathering at the start of Trocadero Square in the west of Paris.

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After first shots carried out without a hitch, the situation has stretched after the departure of the procession at the Palace of Tokyo, when suppiring 150 individuals, identified as being extreme right by the journalists, arrived near The team. A crooked individual with a megaphone then reported them and launched the crowd a call for violence against them, told the assaulted journalist. At least fifty people then directed to the videographer to fight with her. The protective agents interbosed, allowing the two JRIs to flee.

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- Agence France-Press (@AFPFR) January 15, 2022

Tutshots and death threats

Security agents were then struck, In particular with battle blows, while they protected videographer, caught up with twenty protesters. The guards and journalists report to have been threatened with death before one of the security agents receives a bottle on the head, opening the scalp. The latter and the two journalists finally managed to shelter behind a mobile gendarmerie cord and ceased to cover the rally.

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Violence never seen in 6 years

"In six years of events, this is the first time I saw such a violence", testified the journalist, shocked , in particular by the threats of death. "The cadgled man at the origin of the movement has seized me by saying I'm going to kill you, look at me well, I'll kill you" , "she says. "If she had fallen, she would have been turned with blows.

, adds his colleague Videographer.

"Inadmissible acts"

"AFP vigorously protests against this intolerable aggression and the willingness of some of preventing its journalists from doing their work" , "said Phil Chetwynd, Director of AFP Information, which Studies "the possibility of prosecution against such inadmissible acts".

This is the second aggression that is the target of an AFP team covering manifestations against the sanitary pass. In July 2021, two JRIs had received sputum and insults

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