Post date: Feb 23, 2012 5:55:57 PM
HOMS, SYRIA (FEBRUARY 23, 2012) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE) - A French journalist who was wounded in the same attack on the Syrian city of Homs in which a U.S. correspodent and a French news photographer were killed on Wednesday (February 22) made a poignant appeal in a video posted on social media on Thursday (February 23) for a ceasefire to allow their evacuation.
A seriously wounded French journalist stranded in the Syrian city of Homs makes a poignant call for a ceasefire to allow her evacuation in a video posted on the internet.
Edith Bouvier who was in Homs for the French daily Le Figaro, said her leg had suffered a double fracture and called on the French authorities for help with her removal so that she could be operated on. She said she was wounded in the same attack that claimed the lives of Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik on Wednesday.
As her appeal was being recorded, a loud crash could be heard outside, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on oopposition-held neighbourhoods of the city.
"My leg is broken, right down the femur in all its length and horizontally as well. I need most urgently to be operated on. The doctors here treated us very well as well as they can. But they can't carry out any operations. So I urgently need for a ceasefire to be put into place and that a medicalised car or ambulance in a good state can take us to Lebanon to be treated as swiftly as possible," she said in the video.
News photographer William Daniels said that the pair were well treated.
"We try to communicate with the outside world as well we can. Yesterday, I managed to have access to the internet by going to the other end of the neighbourhood. It's very dangerous to go to that place and what is more the connections don't work well. So we concerted and we thought that this video could help us tell everyone what our situation is here," he says in the video.