the French exile of Marina Ovsiannikova, a journalist opposed to Vladimir Putin

Live on Russian television, journalist Marina Ovsiannikova dared to challenge Vladimir Putin and his propaganda. Now a refugee in France, thanks to the help of Reporters Without Borders, she speaks at the microphone of 20 Heures, Friday, February 10. Still upset, she says:I was afraid of not being able to make it to the studio. I thought they were going to arrest me first and send me to rot in the cellars of the Russian secret services.”

“It was my last chance to escape”

After her gesture of defiance, Marina Ovsiannikova was interrogated for 14 hours and spent an atrocious night in prison. Under house arrest, she wears an electronic bracelet. “I understood very well that the next step for me would be prison. My lawyer told me that I had to hurry, that it was my last chance to escape“, she explains. To leave the country, he will have to cut off his electronic bracelet, borrow seven different vehicles and walk for hours. She leaves behind a country she loved. She will have to live in exile with the fear of reprisals.