She was 26 years old on May 12, 2014, when she was shot dead while accompanying a convoy of anti-balakas, a Christian militia, to cover the looting of a village. In France, a new investigating judge has been appointed, the fifth in eight years, but there is no progress. Arnaud Froger, head of the Africa office of Reporters Without Borders, denounces ” a forgotten affair “.
We have the feeling not only that things are not moving forward, but that justice has somewhat forgotten Camille Lepage because in fact in recent years, there has been absolutely no major investigative action that has been carried out. , whether in the Central African Republic or by French justice. So the difficult security context linked to the CAR or the pandemic context have had a good back, it is time eight years after the investigations necessary for the manifestation of the truth are finally carried out. We owe it to Camille’s family and we owe it to Camille Lepage.
Arnaud Froger, head of the Africa desk at Reporters Without Borders
RSF recalls that seven journalists have been murdered since 2013 and the start of the crisis in the Central African Republic. Camille Lepage, but also three Central African journalists, Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, Désiré Luc Sayenga and René Padou as well as three Russian journalists, Orhan Djemal, Kirill Radtchenko and Alexandre Rasstorgouïev.
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