His face is currently scrolling on social networks. On Monday, May 30, 2022, Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, a reporter for BFMTV, was killed in Ukraine at the age of 32. The young man died while going to look for stranded civilians in Lysychansk. The armored bus he was in, escorted by police cars from Kramatorsk, was attacked by a Russian shell and exploded. On the guilty side, the Russians assure that the journalist was a mercenary who delivered “weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces“. Accusations as sordid as false, quickly dismantled by the mother of Frederic.
Of course, Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was not just a journalist. He was above all a human being. This is why his companion, Sam, wanted to pay tribute to him in the middle of the night on social networks, by sharing moving photographs and evoking beautiful memories. “There is no article that is fair, none that transcribes the person I loved and that I lost yesterday in Ukrainehe wrote. I want to do him justice with my words, as much as possible. I had been with Fred for just over a year. We had matched immediately, I liked his sensitive side, attentive and committed. We could discuss the news for hours, his job fascinated him despite the precarious status of a freelancer and the hellish schedules that had been imposed on him for years.“