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| Emmanuel Macron, French President |
PARIS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French war reporter Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff died while accompanying a humanitarian evacuation near the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, according to French officials.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna expressed their condolences to the reporter’s family and to his employer, BFMTV. Colonna said France will demand an investigation.
“The journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was in Ukraine to show the reality of the war,” tweeted Macron. “He was fatally struck on a bus on a humanitarian mission, along with civilians, who were forced to flee Russian bombs.”
BFMTV reported that the 32-year-old was struck by a piece of shrapnel. It had been his second trip to Ukraine since the start of the war. A colleague was slightly wounded in the incident. — NNN-AGENCIES
