Journalists Robin Ramaekers and Stijn De Smet have been assaulted by a bunch of males in Beirut on Wednesday evening. Ramaekers was hospitalised for facial accidents, and De Smet was handled for gunshot wounds.
A Belgian TV crew of two working for the Flemish unbiased broadcaster VTM injured in an assault within the Lebanese capital are ready to be evacuated “as quickly as doable,” based on Belgium’s Overseas Minister Hadja Lahbib.
“We’ll repatriate them as quickly as their situation permits it”, Lahbib mentioned on Thursday.
TV journalist Robin Ramaekers and his cameraman Stijn De Smet have been assaulted, overwhelmed and shot at on Wednesday evening after a bunch of males accused them of working for Israel.
Ramaekers was hospitalised for accidents to his face, whereas De Smet needed to be handled for gunshot wounds to the leg, based on the Belgian press.
“Final evening there was a bombing in central Beirut. When Robin and Stijn wished to run a report on that, they bought wounded,” VTM’s proprietor DPG Media mentioned in a press release Thursday. “Each at the moment are in security and are being cared for.”
The 2 and their fixer wished to cowl an explosion in central Beirut and have been carrying press vests once they have been accosted by a bunch of some 20 males who alleged they have been spies, based on eyewitnesses.
De Smet was shot twice in his leg, whereas Ramaekers and their fixer have been taken to a basement, overwhelmed and questioned for hours. It took them some 20 hours to get again collectively, Ramaekers mentioned in a press release to the Belgian press.
“Stijn has bullet holes in his passport and his cellphone. My footwear have been reduce open searching for ‘proof’,” he mentioned.
“Stijn’s bullet wound and my damaged eye socket and bruised ribs harm, however it is going to primarily be on the within that we are going to want a while to position and course of all of it.”
“We’re in a secure place now, ready for an evacuation flight that Stijn and I can get on. The battle continues right here unabated. It would not really feel good to step out, however that is the best way it’s. We’ll be again,” Ramaekers concluded.
