ARTICLE - FRENCH JOURNALIST ATTACKED

FRENCH JOURNALIST ESCAPES ARMED ATTACK, DRIVER KILLED
(Defend Haiti) -

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Anthony Lapeyre, a French reporter working at Radio Métropole (Haiti), emerged unscathed from an attack against his car by gunmen in Port-au-Prince, while his driver Maxime Alcius, died of his injuries.

One of the attackers was hit in the crossfire with the police, and his gun confiscated.

Maxime Alcius, the driver of a foreign journalist from Radio Métropole, Anthony Lapeyre, died Wednesday afternoon after being mortally wounded by robbers who targeted the vehicle in which the two men were driving near the International Airport in Port-au-Prince.

The French colleague was untouched by the attack, while the driver tried to speed up, ignoring orders to stop ......by the three gunmen, said the news director of privately-owned radio Metropole, Theodore Wendel quoted by radio Kiskeya.

The bandits opened fire on the car, severely injuring Mr. Alcius, who died shortly after admission to hospital. One of the criminals was wounded in the exchange of fire with police who quickly arrived on the scene. A 9mm pistol that was abandoned was recovered.

Prior to the incident, the reporter Anthony Lapeyre had his wife drop in to traffic service where she works.

Plunged in despair, the victim's father stated the tragic fate of his family; that the mother of his son, Maxime, was shot 29 years earlier, in 1983, by a "Tonton Macoute", under the authoritarian regime of a certain Jean-Claude Duvalier.