Punishment for RT France journalists detained in Poland revealed

TASS: RT France journalists detained in Poland were ordered to pay a $ 300 fine each border of Belarus and Poland, journalists of RT France. According to TASS, the employees of the TV channel were ordered to pay a $ 300 fine.

According to the agency, the correspondent of the French branch of RT David Kalifa and the operator Jordi Demory were sentenced to a fine of 1,200 zlotys ($ 300). If the journalists refuse to pay the fines within three days, they will be sentenced to 12 days of arrest. “It is assumed that one day of arrest is equivalent to 100 zlotys,” the source said.

It is noted that since the defendants did not submit a motion to substantiate the sentence, the court's verdict entered into force on November 15.

Earlier, the police of the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland explained the detention of RT France employees on the border with Belarus by the fact that journalists were filming a report in a state of emergency, without having permission to be in this territory.

The detention of journalists became known on November 15 … Ksenia Fedorova, editor-in-chief of RT France, said that the channel's employees were detained at the border between Poland and Belarus. According to her, the correspondent of Kalifa and the operator Demory managed to get in touch by phone and say that the Polish police are behaving “extremely unfriendly.” After that, they stopped communicating.

On November 8, the migration crisis worsened on the border of Belarus and Poland. Crowds of people have gathered at the cordons of the republics, some of them from time to time make an attempt to break through to the territory of the European Union.

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