Editorial office of Armenian magazine in France comes under attack

The editorial office of the French-language Nouvelles d’Arménie magazine covering Armenian news from France and around the world has come under attack.

According to the magazine, the intruders broke the door of the office on Sunday, 20 October to steal three computers and video cameras with confidential data.

The editorial staff of the magazine consistently addresses the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, criminalization of denialism  and, at present, the protection of the Kurds from Turkish aggression.

Armenia's Ambassador to France Hasmik Tolmajian has strongly condemned the attack as "a serious infringement of freedom of speech and republican values."

L’Ambassade d’Arménie condamne avec la plus grande fermeté cette attaque ignoble contre les locaux de Nouvelles d'Arménie. C’est une atteinte grave à la liberté d’expression et aux valeurs républicaines. https://t.co/fU9GrOGmgi

— Hasmik Tolmajian (@tolmajian) October 20, 2019