PARIS (Reuters) - A French television journalist was arrested in Ukraine's Crimea but freed after several hours on Thursday, a spokesman for his station said, days after Reporters Without Borders warned media were being targeted in the region.
David Geoffrion, working for Canal+, was detained by pro-Russian gunmen at a military installation in the Ukrainian town of Simferopol, a French source said.
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