In a six and a half minute video posted to YouTube Thursday, Edith Bouvier, a journalist at Le Figaro, is pleading with the French government for her evacuation after she was hurt in the same shelling attacks that killed Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.
Following the deaths of Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik, there are new troubling reports that Syrian forces targeted journalists and even thought up pre-planned excuses for their deaths.
Remi Ochlik was only in his 28 when he died on Wednesday in Homs, Syria. He was also one of the brightest talents in the field of photojournalism.
Two Western journalists — one French and one American — have reportedly been killed by military shelling in the besieged Syria city of Homs.
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