Investigating the food industry in Brittany, journalist Morgan Large was the victim of an attempted sabotage at the end of March.

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DAMIEN MEYER / AFP

  • Reporters Without Borders calls for police protection for Breton journalist Morgan Large.

  • Investigating the food industry in the region, the journalist from RKB radio was the victim of a sabotage attempt at the end of March.

  • A complaint was also lodged with the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc.

The demand is quite unprecedented for a journalist in France.

Two weeks after the attempt to sabotage Morgan Large, Reporters Without Borders is calling for police protection for the Breton journalist, who is investigating the agri-food industry and the agricultural world.

On March 31, the employee of Radio Kreizh Breizh (RKB), a bilingual French-Breton community radio station installed in Rostrenen (Côtes-d'Armor), noticed that one of the rear wheels of her car had been unbolted.

“According to the testimony of the Morgan Large mechanic, whose complaint refers, it could not have been accidental.

This is indeed a sabotage which therefore stems from a deliberate desire to attack the physical integrity of the journalist and which endangered the journalist and all the users of her vehicle, including her daughter, ”RSF wrote in a press release.

“This act of sabotage is only the latest in a long series, but it shows that a threshold has been crossed in malice, which justifies the opening of a criminal investigation and, as RSF asks the prosecutor , that the journalist also benefits from police protection and an emergency call number in order to allow rapid intervention in the event of imminent danger, ”continues the association.

His dog was intoxicated and the premises of the radio degraded

RSF also asks that a service other than the local gendarmerie be seized of the case, because of the "tense social climate in Rostrenen and its surroundings".

More than 800 people demonstrated last week in the town to defend the freedom to inform and in support of Morgan Large.

RSF and Morgan Large also sent a complaint by registered letter to the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc for an investigation to be opened.

The complaint against X, denounces facts of "destruction, degradation or deterioration of property belonging to others by the effect of any means likely to create a danger for people" and "concerted obstacle to freedom of expression ”.

The complaint details the pressure and intimidation to which the journalist and her radio station have been subjected in recent months, in particular the intoxication of her dog, the phone calls at night to her home, the opening of the enclosure for her animals. and the deterioration of the doors of the RKB premises.

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