A journalist from Ouest-France attacked in Alençon – Le Figaro

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 aggression continued, these facts are intolerable”, denounces the regional daily. The victim, punched and kicked while she was 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.