Affiliated media: REN-TV, Camera crew
Incident date: September 30, 2017
Attack type:
- Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture
Who attacked: Non-authorities
Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
TV channel REN TV reported that an unknown man attacked the camera crew of the channel at the scene of an accident involving a Bentley and a motorcycle, which occurred on Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya in Moscow. The journalist was approached by a man who introduced himself as an investigator and asked to stop filming. His speech was accompanied by swearing and threats, after which the "investigator" violently attacked the producer. According to Yulia Ivanova, a senior aide to the head of the State Security Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow, the attacker was a student of one of the capital's universities and had nothing to do with law enforcement agencies.