Targeted theft of RSF correspondent’s computer in Abidjan
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is disturbed to learn that the home of its correspondent in Abidjan, Ivorian journalist Baudelaire Mieu, was the target of a burglary yesterday. Mieu also works for the US news agency Bloomberg and the Paris-based pan-African magazine Jeune Afrique.
Brandishing a gun, the burglars took Mieu’s computer but left his wife’s and other objects of value. Mieu specializes in business stories but also covers politics and social issues.
Mieu filed a complaint at the local police station in the suburb of Cocody. The police have opened an investigation and sent a police officer to his home to do a routine crime report.
“This armed attack, whose sole aim seems to have been the targeted theft of Mieu’s computer, is obviously very worrying,” RSF said. “We call on the police and judicial authorities to conduct a serious and thorough investigation that quickly sheds all possible light on this matter.”
Côte d’Ivoire is ranked 86th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2016 World Press Freedom Index.
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