“Being detained for seven hours is an ordeal, especially in handcuffs.
It is not right.
I regard this as intimidation.
This means “stay out of here” and henceforth you will be warned, ”she said.
Chazo said that such actions are completely contrary to the foundations of democracy.
She stressed that Poland is part of the Eurozone.
“I don’t really understand [this situation], unless it’s a serious warning.
It doesn't take seven hours to find out the identity of the journalists.
They did their job.
This is unacceptable, ”she said.
She also stated that this situation is worrisome and unacceptable.
On November 15, it became known that the RT France film crew was detained at the Polish-Belarusian border.
Correspondent David Kalifa and cameraman Jordi Demory managed to report that the Polish police were behaving "extremely unfriendly."
Later, a representative of the police of the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland said that the correspondent and operator of RT France was taken to the court of the Polish city of Sokolka.
They were subsequently sentenced to a fine.
The Secretary General of the European Federation of Journalists Ricardo Guterres said that the detention of the RT France film crew on the Polish-Belarusian border is an act of censorship.
The head of the National Trade Union of French Journalists, Dominique Pradallier, commenting on the detention, called for respect for the rights of the press everywhere, "including in the so-called closed areas."