Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri 10:45 a.m., February 24, 2022
A farmer from Bouches-du-Rhône attacked three journalists from the France 2 program "'Envoyé Spécial" in September 2020 who were investigating the work and housing of foreign agricultural workers.
The sequence had been filmed and broadcast on the air.
The farmer has just been sentenced.
€1,000 fine and €400 procedural costs.
This is what a farmer found guilty by the courts of violence against two journalists from the France 2 investigative
program Envoyé Spécial
will have to pay .
At the head of a large agricultural company in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the man had attacked in September 2020 three journalists who were investigating illicit practices concerning the work and housing of foreign agricultural workers in the region.
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A hundred attacks on journalists in three years
The
Envoyé Spécial
team had filmed this attack and the sequence had been broadcast within the report.
The attack did not result in serious injuries, but Thomas Guery, the cameraman, suffered from back pain for several months after the events.
In the trial against this farmer, three journalists' unions, the SNJ, the SNJ-CGT and the CFDT-Journalistes, also filed a civil action.
It should be noted that, for three years, the unions have recorded around a hundred attacks on journalists in France.
Attacks which took place in particular during the demonstrations against the Labor law, those of the Yellow Vests and the anti-sanitary pass demonstrations.