Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture and Communication, condemns with indignation the attacks on journalists covering the demonstrations in Cairo

On this day of international mobilization against violence

Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture and

Communication, condemns with indignation the attacks

journalists covering the demonstrations in Cairo, and in

Caroline Sinz, journalist from France 3, on 24 November 2011.

It expresses its full support and solidarity to these

professionals, their team, their entourage and their writing. Frédéric

Mitterrand welcomes their courage and commitment, calling on the

Egyptian authorities to make every effort to ensure that such

actions do not happen again, and that journalists can

freely exercise their profession.

These acts, all the more revolting as they reach humanity and

the intimacy of their victims, remind us that the right to freedom

and information is not an abstract principle, but a

reality and a daily struggle for all professional journalists.

Patricia Allémonière, Hervé Ghesquière, Stéphane Taponnier, and

others: every day, many journalists continue to assume

and pay in their flesh this part of the risk inherent in their mission to

freedom of information service. They go where they’re not expected, where

they are not desired. Where violence kills freedom, they become

interpreters of those who arbitrarily try to gag. Their struggle

is not vain, it is not isolated, it is even less lonely.