Czech News Crew Robbed at Gunpoint While Covering APEC in San Francisco

‘Masked assailants’ were ’heading at my cameraman, aiming a gun at his stomach and one at my head,' a TV journalist said.

People walk outside the Moscone Center during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2023. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Two Czech television news crew were robbed at gunpoint while covering the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco on Nov. 12, according to multiple reports.

TV journalist Bohumil Vostal said he was capturing a shot of San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore when three “masked assailants” approached him and his cameraman, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.