French filmmakers and local fixer freed after weeks in Togo detention

French documentary makers Gaël Mocaër and Sebastian Perez Pezzani, who were arrested in northern Togo on 27 July while working on an episode of the television series Les Routes de l'impossible. © X.com

Two French documentary makers and their Togolese fixer have been granted provisional release in Togo, more than a month after they were arrested in the north while working on a television programme. The three deny accusations of false statements and irregularities linked to their filming assignment.

Gaël Mocaër, Sebastian Perez Pezzani and their Togolese collaborator Fred Vedomey were arrested on 27 July while making an episode of Les Routes de l'impossible, a documentary series broadcast by France Télévisions, the French public broadcaster.