According to a note posted on the EBUs website, France’s television channel TF1 has stopped sending news teams to Iraq because of the risk of kidnappings.
“We have decided not to replace the teams going to Baghdad. When our team that is currently over there comes back, we will wait a little before sending another one,” said TF1 news director Robert Namias, speaking on RTL radio on 22 September.
The current team is due back at the end of this week, Namias added.
Two French journalists, Radio France correspondent Christian Chesnot and Le Figaro reporter Georges Malbrunot, and their Syrian driver, Mohammed al-Jundi, were seized south of Baghdad on 20 August.