Two journalists, one French, killed in Homs

A French photojournalist, Remi Ochlik, and an American journalist working for The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin, were killed Wednesday, February 22 in Syria, said Minister of Culture, Frederic Mitterrand at the exit of the cabinet, confirming a information on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.

A witness told the Reuters news agency that a shell had struck the house in which two journalists were - a press center of opposition activists - and they were then hit by a rocket when they fled.

Other journalists were injured in the bombing. The militant Omar Shakir, Baba Amro, contacted on Skype, evokes "three or four other foreign journalists' injured. Among them, the French Edith Bouvier reporter for Le Figaro, said the editor of the daily. "I received two calls this morning telling me Homs Edith Bouvier was injured in the legs," he told AFP Gélie Philippe, head of the foreign Figaro. "We are in contact with the French and British embassies as well as the Red Cross to reach the location and to evacuate," he added, noting that it had no indication of the seriousness of his injuries.

Edith Bouvier, 31, worked as a freelancer for Le Figaro. She has collaborated with Radio France Internationale (RFI), France Culture, France Inter, France Info, as well as daily Libération and Le Temps and Helvetic Belgian Le Soir.

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Ochlik Remi, 28, was a war photographer, who started his own photo agency, IP3 Press. His work in Libya had been awarded the World Press 2012. Marie Colvin has covered many conflicts, Yugoslavia, Iran, Sri Lanka and recently during the "Arab Spring".

On 11 January, the French reporter Gilles Jacquier was the first Western journalist killed in Syria since the beginning of the revolt. He died at Homs on a trip authorized by the authorities, which drastically restrict the movement of journalists in the country. No witness on the spot could not determine if the shell that killed him was fired by a rebel or if it was a shot of the army.