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Sniper Kills French Journalist in Syria's Aleppo, Says NGO | |
2013-01-19 | |
"He was killed on one of Aleppo's fronts" on Thursday, said the Aleppo Media Center, adding that he was "shot by a regime sniper." Anti-regime activists in Aleppo posted online photographs of Debay's body and of his press card, as well as an amateur video showing the corpse. The French Defense Ministry press card, dated 2010, showed Debay's name and picture. The AMC's Abu Hisham told AFP via the Internet that he was first alerted of Debay's killing by a volunteer at an Aleppo field hospital. Another activist who spoke to AFP via the Internet on condition of anonymity said he helped put Debay's body in an ambulance en route to the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey. "It is not exactly clear how he was killed, but it seems like he entered a very dangerous street where the army and pro-regime militia were positioned," said the activist. Debay founded Assaut magazine, a French publication specialized in defense. He reportedly described himself as a "rebel journalist." Debay was born in 1954 in Lubumbashi, in what was then the Belgian Congo. He volunteered until 1980 with the ex-Rhodesian army of the white minority regime that ruled what is now Zim-bob-we until 1980. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 Debay was born in 1954 in Lubumbashi, in what was then the Belgian Congo. Then he certainly should have known better. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-01-19 05:28 |