Clarifications on the circumstances of the death of journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imoff, 32, was released by his colleagues at BFM television station, where he had worked for the past six years.
Visibly shaken and moved, they broke the news immediately after President Macron made the death public, noting that the armoured vehicle he was in was not hit directly and that his death was caused by shrapnel passing through the "windscreen".
"Frederic was in the front seat and a shrapnel hit him," said Patrick Schoss, a reporter for the channel, clarifying that the channel's other journalist Maxime Brandstaetter, who was in the back seat, was "slightly injured", while the third member of the journalistic team, Oxana Leuta, who was also in the back seat, was unharmed.
"Frederic was not a hothead. He weighed every minute of his mission," said a visibly moved Marc-Olivier Fogiel general manager of BFM on the channel's set. He went on to say the following: "The three members of the team assessed, as they do every morning, the risks.
Frederic and Oxana considered that the mission was safe enough and that they could go, while Maxime had some reservations, as he might have had the day before or the day after. But (...) they were also a very close-knit group of journalists and so they decided to go there to report," the BFM director explained."
Referring to the "first reaction" of Frederick's mother when he spoke to her on the phone, he said that despite her pain "she asked to know how Maxim and Oxana were. She knew what her son's job was (...) and she had a form of pride," Fongiel concluded."
Source: Proto Thema
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