Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, was fatally affected while he accompanied a convoy intended to evacuate civilians in the Louhansk region. This is the eighth journalist killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.
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It was Emmanuel Macron himself who confirmed the news. Monday, May 30, BFM-TV journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, was killed while he accompanied a convoy intended to evacuate civilians in the Louhansk region, east of Ukraine. “Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was in Ukraine to show the reality of the war. On board a humanitarian bus, alongside civilians forced to flee to escape the Russian bombs, he was fatally affected,” wrote the chief of the ‘State on Twitter. It is the eighth journalist – and second French – killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.
According to several sources and testimonies, the young journalist reporter of images (JRI) who has worked for six years for the continuous information chain, was affected by the brilliance of a shellfold near the armored vehicle of The Ukrainian police in which he was, near the city of Sievierodonetsk. Maxime Brandstaetter, the journalist editor of BFM-TV who accompanied him at the back of the same vehicle, was “slightly injured” by a shine to the leg, according to the chain of the Altice group. The Ukrainian translator of the two reporters, Oksana Leuta, was not touched.
“Double crime”
This drama “bereaved” the visit of Catherine Colonna, the new Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, who had just arrived in kyiv, a first for a member of the French executive since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. “It is a double crime that targets a humanitarian convoy and a journalist,” reacted the former spokesperson for Jacques Chirac, who learned the news when she had lunch with her Ukrainian counterpart Dimitri Kuleba. Earlier in the morning, M colonna had survived, martyred city located in the large suburbs of kyiv. “It is better to see things in real life” and also “to show, by going to it, that one is not aware of who is attacked and who is the aggressor,” she confided.
“This is the Russian method. When we evacuated Marioupol, one convoy [of civilians] out of two was targeted,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, receiving Catherine Colonna in the afternoon. During this one hour interview with the Ukrainian president, the minister asked him to “do everything possible to make the authorities of his country help France to shed light” on the death of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff. M colonna then told journalists invited for the occasion to the French Embassy that she would demand “a transparent investigation as soon as possible”. She herself called the governor of the region, to ask him for help on the precise circumstances of the journalist’s death. “I present my condolences to her family and his profession,” she said before the press: “Your work is essential, but be careful, you are in a country at war.” In a video broadcast in the evening , Mr. Zelensky presented his “sincere condolences to colleagues and the family of Frédéric”.
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