NANTERRE, FRANCE (AFP) – Two passengers were killed yesterday when a bus acting as a rail replacement service for French railway operator SNCF crashed after it took evasive action from a car driving on the wrong side of the road, police said. Four more passengers were also rushed to hospital after the incident outside the […]
NANTERRE, FRANCE (AP) – The race of the police officer who fatally shot a French teenager during a traffic stop hasn’t been disclosed, and there’s no reason why it would be. Officially, race doesn’t exist in France. But the death of the French-born 17-year-old with North African roots, which sent rioters into the streets, has […]
it makes harder work, normally, it is since yellowjackets, since four years ago. katya, what precautions have you had to take and what reaction have you had from people on the ground? the bbc... when you are known to go out into those kind of situations, with the bbc, you get riot training and also i worked in the middle east for many years and you get hostile environment training which is renewed every three years. and though sort of things are for insurance of course, from a bbc point of view but it is also to equip us with realising key things. for example nanterre, daytime, the housing estate where nahel lived, it can look quite calm during the day but in seconds it could change. you have one look, a whole people appear and you are threatened.
burn cars, some people are afraid that i am filming, and the police may recognise them and they think we don't tell the truth and that we protect the police. young people asked us to leave this place. it's very problematic to work in nanterre, in paris, the same in toulouse. i'm used to covering the protest in paris. it's the same situation since the yellow jackets. what does it mean you do in terms of staying safe? do you take a security guard? what's the situation for you? for covering the riots, the protest in paris, we have security, we are filming with the iphone, not bigger equipment. much smaller equipment,
the evening, the day that nahel m was killed. you're standing in front of a police van and talking about the violence that has started. boris, just tell me a bit about what happened when you first tried to report from that scene because i understand... you said earlier it was difficult forjournalists — i understand people were telling you that you should leave. young people from the nanterre neighbourhood tell us that the only way to appear in the media is to burn everything. burning police stations,
phil, we were talking earlier about the precautions journalist had to take and presumably when access to the scene of a story becomes an issue when journalists are being attacked potentially, i am assuming a news agency like yours becomes even more useful to newspapers and tv channels because you can go out and try and provide the material that they may be less able to get, i don't know. absolutely. what i would say for example is we have a full—time correspondent in nanterre. we have someone who works there every day when there is not a riot or a crisis and so on, so therefore, knows people that you can then call on when you need to go in there in difficult times, so you can build trust and also we have a network of bureaus across france, of course, which means we can mobilise as and when different areas of unrest break out. to react as things evolve.
an issue when journalists are being attacked potentially, i am assuming a newsagency like yours becomes even more useful to newspapers and tv channels because you can go out and try and provide the material that they may be less able to get, i don't. absolutely. what i would say for example is we have a full—time correspondent in nanterre. we have someone who works there everyday when there is not a riot or a crisis and so on, so therefore, knows people that you can then call on when you need to go in there in difficult times, so you can build trust and also we have a network of bureaus across france, of course, which means we can mobilise as and when different areas of unrest break—out. to react as things evolve. for clients such as the bbc, clients all over the world. and the levels of precaution that we were talking about, filming on iphones, security guards, is that also the kind of thing you would implement?
the bbc... when you are known to go out into those kind of situations, with the bbc, you get riot training and also i worked in the middle east for many years and you get hostile environment training which is renewed every three years. and though sort of things are for insurance of course, from a bbc point of view but it is also to equip us with realising key things. for example nanterre, daytime, the housing estate where nahel lived, it can look quite calm during the day but in seconds it could change. you have one look, a whole people appear and you are threatened. that it happened to us on the thursday that we were there. things happen very fast. what happened when you did get threatened? several times we were
have a foothold or any trust in the communities that they could reach believably and appeal for calm. that is a real indictment. phil chapman from afp. we were talking earlier about the precautions journalist have to take and presumably when access to the scene of a story becomes an issue when journalists are being attacked potentially, i am assuming a newsagency like yours becomes even more useful to newspapers and tv channels because you can go out and try and provide the material that they may be less able to get, i don't know. absolutely. what i would say for example is we have a full—time correspondent in nanterre. we have someone who works there everyday when there is not a riot or a crisis and so on, so therefore, knows people that you can then call on when you need to go in there in difficult times, so you can build trust and also we have a network of bureaus across france, of course, which means we can mobilise as and when different areas of unrest break out.