Aged 32, this tall brunette with soft features, described by those close to him as “queer, vegan, antispecist, anticapitalist“, had worked for BFMTV for six years and was carrying out his second mission there in Ukraine, as a journalist and image reporter (JRI).
Graduated in 2014, he had been trained at the Institute of Journalism Bordeaux Aquitaine (Ijba), after studying philosophy in Paris. On Friday, several of his Ijba comrades said he was “died doing one of the things that gave meaning to his existence“.
“He was the 8th journalist to find the word in this conflict“said Christophe Deloire of RSF, saluting a professional”brilliant committed, passionate and benevolent“.
After the announcement of his death, the French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced the opening of a war crimes investigation. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna tweeted that the journalist had been “killed by Russian bombardment“.