The office of the National Prosecutor this Sunday, October 5, said this Sunday, October 5, opened an investigation for the “war crime” after the death of the French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, killed in a drone attack in Ukraine.
The investigations are entrusted to the central office for the fighter crimes against Humanity and the crimes of Haine (OCLCH), specify the PNAT, requested by AFP.
Antoni Lallican, 37, was killed Friday morning in a drones attack in DonBass, in eastern Ukraine, during which a Ukrainian journalist, Georguii Ivantchenko, was injured.
An open investigation in “flagration”
Pnat’s investigation opened in “flagration.” The head of the “war crime”, which is one of the PNAT’s skills, consists of a “voluntary attack on the life and physical or mental integrity of a person protected by international humanitarian law.”
The “war crime” also includes a “deliberate attack against the civilian population as such or against civilians who do not participate directly in hostilities,” also recalls the PNA.
Emmanuel Macron reacts to the death of Antoni Lallican
Antoni Lallican was “a victim of an attack on Russian drones,” denounced the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron in X. This photojournalist was “killed by a Russian drone near Droujkivka (in the Donetsk region, note of the editor), despite the” press record “in his Valval.
“Russia continues to deliberately attack journalists (…). We will do everything for officials to respond to their actions,” he added. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the French photojournalist was part of a group of journalists who accompanied a unit of the fourth Ukrainian armored brigade near the town of Droujkivka, about twenty kilometers from the eastern front.
Antoni Lallican “was killed after a leading strike of a FPV drone (first view, editor’s note),” he wrote this Brigade on Facebook. The two journalists distributed “in a press identified in a car when they were achieved,” according to the reporters of the NGO Sin Frontières (RSF), which requested “a quick investigation.”
Source: BFM TV
