The Daily Telegraph/AFP report:
Six people who hid in a supermarket refrigerator during January's Islamist attacks in Paris have sued French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege.
Images broadcast from the scene on January 9, when gunman Amedy Coulibaly stormed into the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket,
killing four and taking others hostage, "lacked the most basic
precautions" and endangered those still alive inside, said a lawyer
representing the group, Patrick Klugman. Mr Klugman singled out French 24-hour news channel BFMTV, which
revealed live on air that the group - including a three-year-old child
and a one-month-old baby - was hiding from Coulibaly in the cold room, where they were taken by one of the supermarket's employees.
"The working methods of media in real time in this type of situation
were tantamount to goading someone to commit a crime," Mr Klugman told
AFP Thursday, roundly criticising coverage by other outlets of security
forces movements during the standoff.
The lives of those hiding "could have been at risk if Coulibaly had
been aware in real time what BFMTV was broadcasting," Mr Klugman said,
adding that the jihadist was following the coverage of his raid on
different channels and had been in contact with BFMTV journalists. More.
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