Two French Filmmakers Have Been Arrested and Detained in Togo Since July 27, According to the French Foreign Ministry
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Two French directors have been arrested in Togo and have been detained in the country since July 27, according to local media. Left to make a production that was to be broadcast on France...
Two French journalists and their Togolese collaborators, arrested at the end of July in the north of the country, were detained on Monday, 17 August. They are being prosecuted for "false statements." However, according to our information, they were granted permission to shoot.
They were arrested on 27 July during a film for France 5, "their confiscated passports and rushes, and accused of espionage", explains on Wednesday on France Inter, Tony Comiti, of their production company.
In Togo, two French journalists were arrested at the end of July, it was learned on Tuesday, August 18. The two reporters were working on an unspecified story for a French television station. The information first appeared in the Togolese press and was later confirmed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris.
Two French nationals working for a television production company were arrested in the middle of last week in northern Togo.
According to local media, they are two film-makers whose report was to be broadcast on France Télévisions.
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