Affiliated media: Nashi Groshi with Denys Bihus, Fim crew
Incident date: March 17, 2017
Attack type:
- Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation
Who attacked: Non-authorities
Source: bihus.info
Location: Ukraine, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia
Additional information:
Security service of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Administration Head attacked the film crew and tried to interrupt the shooting. During the shooting of a news story, an unknown people approached the journalist and cameraman in a Volkswagen Caddy. A man left the car and without saying anything he knocked a quadrocopter controller out the cameraman's hands using his leg. After that, he tried to take the quadrocopter and demanded to delete the recorded material. During this clash, the cameraman threw out the sd-card by the side of the road, hoping to save the information.