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Le Jour

Gender: Male
Print Journalist
  • Organisation: Le Jour
  • Case: Attack
  • Culprit: armed men and uniformed police officers
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • City: Abidjan

Most recently, on February 10, as many as thirty armed men and three uniformed police officers broke into the printing press where the independent Abidjan daily Le Jour is produced. The intruders forced a security guard to lie prone while they searched the premises for “arms and mercenaries.” A police helicopter hovered over the factory while the search was being performed. The men all claimed to be law enforcement officers, but did not have a search warrant. They claimed to be acting on an anonymous phone tip, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

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