A journalist from "Ouest-France" beaten up in Alençon

A journalist from

was prescribed three days of total incapacity for work after being "beaten up" while covering the night from Friday to Saturday of mortar fire in Alençon, a- we learned from the direction of the newspaper.

“He was taking pictures and videos in the Perseigne district when around fifteen hooded individuals” took him to task, the editorial staff of

told AFP .

"The journalist thinks he was taken for a policeman, and when he said he was a journalist, the attack continued, these facts are intolerable", denounces the regional daily.

The victim, punched and kicked while on the ground, received stitches in the head.

A complaint is scheduled for Monday for these events in a district of Alençon, Perseigne, plagued for a year by urban violence against a backdrop of drug trafficking.

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