Colombia - Newly-freed French journalist stresses importance of covering the war

Reporters without borders

“One must continue covering this conflict” – with this comment, French freelance reporter Roméo Langlois said it all within minutes of his release yesterday after being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for a month in the southern department of Caquetá. Significantly, Langlois appeared with a camera in his hand in the locality of San Isidro, where the FARC handed him over to a humanitarian delegation consisting of an International Committee of the Red Cross (...)

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