Death of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff: Who was the French journalist killed during a report in Ukraine?

Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was 32 years old. He died while doing his job as a journalist in Ukraine. He works as an Image Reporter (JRI) – a man who sits behind a camera and takes pictures. BFM TV And followed the war on Ukrainian soil since the Russian invasion.

According to the first information provided by Emmanuel Macron and the serial news channel, Friedrich Leklerk-Imhoff was killed along with civilians traveling in a humanitarian bus in Ukraine.

Second mission to Ukraine

“BFMTV is in great pain at announcing the disappearance of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff,” the 32-year-old film reporter confirmed of the channel on its antenna. The latter was wounded by the pieces “while continuing a humanitarian operation,” he said. This is the second job for Ukraine, a videographer who has worked for BFMTV for 6 years.

Journalist Maxime Brandstaetter, who accompanied the JRI in the report, told the channel it was a “minor injury”. The Ukrainian “Fixer” who came with the two journalists was not injured. Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at least eight journalists have died in the field in which they work, according to the RSF.

The head of French diplomacy, Catherine Colona, ​​on Monday called for “a speedy and transparent investigation into the circumstances that led to this tragedy.”