Alerts | Physical attack by public

Two journalists at news channel Welt attacked while preparing live Coronavirus broadcast

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Two journalists working for the news channel Welt were verbally and physically attacked while preparing a live broadcast on the coronavirus outbreak in the city of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony. The reporter Daniel Koop and his cameraman Festim Beqiri were setting up their equipment when residents attacked them, throwing potatoes, tomatoes and eggs from their balconies, insulting and threatening them to destroy their equipment.

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