Fledged journalist victim attack

A journalist from Azerbaijani origin and his wife were attacked by a gunman on Friday in a suburb of Toulouse.

Namazov lived in exile in southern France. The mayor of the suburb of Colomiers takes into account a politically motivated attack. 'Rahim Namazov is a journalist who was tortured and imprisoned in his country and lived as a political refugee in France,' Karine Michelet-Traval told the La Dépêche newspaper. 'You obviously think of a retribution. '

The journalist fled from Azerbaijan to France in 2010. In that year he said in a video on YouTube that he was imprisoned because he had written articles about assaults in the armed forces of Azerbaijan.