Florence Hartmann

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Florence Hartmann

Florence Hartmann (born February 17, 1963 ) is a French journalist and author . In the 1990s she was a correspondent for the daily Le Monde in the Balkans .

In 2009, Hartmann was fined 7,000 euros by a United Nations (UN) court for publishing information about the Srebrenica massacre in a book as a former spokeswoman for the prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that were classified as confidential process documents. According to Hartmann, her book revealed attempts by the ICTY to cover up Serbia's responsibility for the massacre.

Hartmann did not pay the fine and was sentenced to a seven-day prison term in 2011. After both France and the Netherlands repeatedly ignored extradition requests from the UN, Florence Hartmann was arrested by UN security forces on March 24, 2016 in The Hague when she was attending the pronouncement of the verdict against the politician and war criminal Radovan Karadžić and for the execution of the prison sentence imprisoned. She was released early on March 29th.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. Journalist jailed by Karadžić tribunal is released early. In: theguardian.com . March 29, 2016, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  2. Florence Hartmann Granted Early Release. In: unmict.org. International Residual Mechanism for Ad Hoc Criminal Courts , March 29, 2016, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  3. Florence Hartmann, Ed Vulliamy: How Britain and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate. In: theguardian.com . July 4, 2015, accessed March 10, 2019 .