French journalist Frédéric Léclerc-Imhoff dies in a Russian attack in Lugansk, Ukraine

The French President, Emmanuel Macronconfirmed this Monday the death of the French journalist Frédéric Léclerc-Imhoff, who worked for the BFM TV network, in the war in Ukrainehit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel from the Russian army.

“I share the sorrow of the family, loved ones and colleagues from Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, to whom I address my condolences. To those men and women who guarantee the difficult mission of informing on stage, I once again show the unconditional support of France”wrote Macron on his Twitter account.

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The French president added on the social network that Leclerc-Imhoff he was in Ukraine to show “the reality of war” and that he was on a humanitarian bus with civilians forced to flee to escape Russian bombs.

NEWS! a journalist from @BFMTV
Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, this was for the UK (tir sniper?) alors qu’il était dans convoi clearly identified “aide humanitarian”. press of #Sieverodonetsk #ukraine. by Sergiy Gaidai / Gouverneur
“Practices” Ru classique depuis #Syrie. pic.twitter.com/KphiF0J6XB

— J.comme JéJé ???????? ???????? #UkraineMap (@HeliosRunner) May 30, 2022

“He has been fatally beaten,” added the French head of state.

The head of the military administration of the Luhansk region, where the attack took place, Serhiy Haidai, reported on Monday that the reporter was in an armored evacuation vehicle to pick up 10 people from the area and came under enemy fire.

According to RSF, this would be the second French journalist killed in this conflict, after the Franco-Irish cameraman for Fox News, Pierre Zakrzewski, and the eighth informant killed in Ukraine since February 24.

Source: Elcomercio

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