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05.01.2017 00:00
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Le Pen's security attack journalist

Set to go head to head for the French presidency. Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen race to the finish on 7th May.

This video recorded last sunday taken as Photographer Jacob Khrist was violently detained by Front National Marine Le Pen's private security. He was covering a protest outside a polling station in Henin-Beaumont.

Footage of the arrest shows Khrist being pinned to the ground.Apparently in pain and begging the officers to stop. His agency condemned his arrest,
saying it was "inadmissible" as he was simply carrying out his job.

But no European media has shown this video and Critics in Turkey and Europe who bleat about press freedom, and orture of journalists have ignored it.