Illustration of an agri-food factory here near Rennes, in Brittany.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

  • According to Reporters Without Borders, a Breton journalist investigating the food industry was the victim of a malicious act on Wednesday.

  • The bolts securing one of the wheels of his car were said to have been removed.

  • Another journalist was also allegedly insulted and pushed around this week by a farmer.

Investigating the agrifood industry in Brittany is not an easy exercise as the sector weighs heavily on the economy.

Some journalists even find themselves intimidated and threatened for simply trying to do their job.

The journalist of Radio Kreizh Breizh Morgan Large comes thus “endangered”, indicates this Friday Reporters Without Borders.

“It's the kind of story that seems to come out of a television fiction, but that is pure and grim reality.

On Wednesday March 31, Radio Kreiz Breizh journalist Morgan Large was about to take the wheel, when suddenly she realized that the bolts securing one of the rear wheels of her vehicle had disappeared, ”says RSF in a statement.

“This malicious act, which could have put her in serious danger, is not the first.

Since the journalist investigated the subsidies granted to agribusiness in Brittany, she and her media have been the subject of pressure and acts of intimidation on several occasions, ”adds the association, which denounced "Unacceptable pressure" and said to consider "a judicial follow-up".

" What is the next step ?

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Another journalist, who was to carry out an interview with Morgan Large, "was insulted, pushed around and followed to her home by a farmer" this week in Glomel (Côtes-d'Armor), also add in another press release. journalists from the Radio Breizh network (associative radios in the Breton language).

"It is the entire profession that is under attack, as well as the freedom to inform (...) It is unacceptable that journalists are targeted and that our work is hampered", they write, calling for a strike on Tuesday 6 April and a rally in support of the two journalists and for the freedom to inform at noon in Rostrenen.

“We cannot let this go because we are in an escalation, explains Gwenaël Delanoë, journalist at RKB.

The question we ask ourselves is: what is the next step?

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Since Morgan Large appeared in the documentary Bretagne, a sacrificed land on France 5, the doors of RKB radio have been forced open and the journalist had already been the subject of intimidation.

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