Camera crews in the firing line as France’s ’yellow vests’ clash with police
By Jane Whyatt
As demonstrators in yellow vests have clashed with police across France a number of photojournalists have been attacked and injured as they tried to cover the protests. CPJ offers safety guidelines for journalists.
(photo: Obier, Manif Gilets Jaunes Vesoul 17nov2018, CC BY-SA 4.0)
After violence erupted on Saturday 8. December, the European Federation of Journalists and its member organisations, the French journalists’ unions SNJ, SNJ-CGT and CFDT-Journalistes issued a statement. They demand an end to the violence and they encourage all journalists who have been affected to make an official complaint.
Quoting a report in Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, the journalists’…
