A freelance photographer has been brutally mugged as she worked on her first assignment in Paris for The Daily Telegraph.
Lana Wong was reportedly standing outside a shop while the male journalist she was shadowing made a purchase inside, when it’s thought she was attacked.
Colin Randall, the newspaper’s Paris Bureau chief, said the freelance was “pounced from behind” by a gang of three men in the district of Montfermeil.
According to Randall, the freelance escaped unharmed from her five-year stint in Africa only to be mugged on the ‘nice’ side of the street in the French ghettoes.
Writing on his blog, the journalist confirmed that the gang, acting in broad daylight, thumped Wong in the face; pushed her to the ground and kicked her before fleeing.
They made off with a digital camera worth £3,000, credit cards, £70 in euros and the keys to her flat.
Wong, 37, has been described by Randall as a “delightful” New Yorker, who is married with two children. She lives in Paris and was starting her first assignment with The Daily Telegraph.
“Both of us are angry with ourselves, me in particular for not being with her – however unthreatening things then seemed - when she was attacked,” Randall wrote on his blog.
“My presence would not necessarily have saved her possessions, and I am not especially brave or noble. But I am old-fashioned enough to wish that I had been there to take her beating.”
Jun 5, 2006
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