France - Toulouse gunman recordings – let the media do their job!

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the disproportionate and repressive reaction from the French authorities to the television channel TF1's broadcasting of parts of the gunman Mohammed Merah's recorded phone conversations with the police from his Toulouse apartment before he was killed in a shootout on 23 March. In particular, the media freedom organization condemns the raid carried out on the headquarters of the company that produces the TF1 programme “Sept à Huit” and the decision by the (...)

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