Photographer shot in Geneva returns to London.

Guy Smallman, the freelance photographer shot in the leg by riot police in Geneva on June 1, returns to London on June 12 (today) and will be giving a press conference at the NUJ
headquarters tomorrow at 2pm.

Dramatic video of the shooting, showing the Swiss Police stun grenade exploding against his leg, will be shown at the press conference and available for distribution.

Guy Smallman was covering protests against the G8 summit in Evian when he was caught with crowds peacefully leaving Geneva. Police started aggressively herding the crowd, who fled, and Guy was at the back when police fired tear gas and stun grenades. One hit him in the leg and exploded. It took an hour for the ambulance to get through. In hospital he was operated on for two hours to repair considerable muscle damage.

Guy Smallman is an experienced photographer who has covered numerous such events.

Photographer colleagues in the NUJ have given him tremendous help and last Friday (June 6) staged a protest at the Swiss Embassy in London. NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear joined the protest and succeeded in meeting the Consul General, who promised to arrange a meeting with the Ambassador.

A low-res version of the video to be shown at the press conference is at the following website link, together with
framegrabs that clearly show Guy Smallman attempting to get away and police firing at him:

 http://www.ssi-media.com/pigbrother/GuyHasenjagd.htm

The press conference is at the NUJ, headland House, 308 Grays Inn Road, WC1 (near Kings Cross)

at 2pm, Friday June 13.