great reporter, inform at the cost of his life

How to work on these areas of conflict? What are the rules to follow? Are the laws of war respected? So many questions that arise after the death of BFMTV journalist Frédéric Leclerc Imhoff, Monday, May 30 in Ukraine. “The most important thing is to do our job to the end. To go and light up these areas. If we were forbidden to go there, the massacres would be perpetrated and the dictators could massacre without images or witnesses”explains Christophe Kenck, journalist and reporter for France Télévisions who has covered many conflicts. “I will put the war in Ukraine on the same slider as Chechnya. The specialty of the Russians is to massively bombard the cities and then enter them without resistance. The danger is therefore permanent because of these incessant assaults”he continues. “It’s an army that does not go into detail”.

When you go to such complicated terrain, there are obviously things to do and others to avoid. “When you go to a front line, there are precautions to take depending on the situation. There, in this case, we are under bombardment. Instead, you have to walk along the buildings, advance checkpoint after checkpoint. point, ask for information. But we are never safe from the shell that will fall next to us and kill us”, emphasizes Christophe Kenck. He went on a report with a young journalist, to whom he wanted to share his experience and expertise in the field, like a passing of the torch.