Lucas Mebrouk Dolega

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Lucas Mebrouk Dolega (born August 19, 1978 in Paris , † January 17, 2011 in Tunis ) was a Franco-German photojournalist . Dolega died on January 17, 2011 after being hit in the head by a tear gas grenade at close range a few days earlier while reporting on the riots in Tunis .

Life

Dolega's real name was Loucas von Zabiensky-Mebrouk. He was born in 1978 to a German journalist and a French doctor in Paris and was a German and French citizen. In April 2006 Dolega started working for the European Pressphoto Agency (epa) in Paris. In 2008 he documented the situation in the Congo photographically.

On January 14, 2011, the day after his arrival in Tunis, and at the end of a demonstration on avenue Bourguiba, Dolega was in a group of journalists on the corner of rue Gandhi and rue de Marseille. During his photojournalistic assignment in the course of the jasmine revolution in the Tunisian capital Tunis, he was hit by a tear gas grenade that was 5 cm in diameter and 20 cm long and fired from a short distance by police officers into the group of photographers. She seriously injured Dolega in the eye and left temple. After initial treatment by fellow reporters, he was driven to the 'Le Secours' clinic, where he was stabilized before being transferred to the Tunis Rabta Neurologic Hospital. He was operated on immediately at the Tunis Rabta Neurologic Hospital, and over the course of the weekend his already critical condition worsened. On the morning of January 17, 2011, Lucas Dolega died from his serious injuries.

According to Reporters Without Borders , Dolega was the first foreign journalist to be killed in the course of the Jasmine Revolution . Dolega died at the age of 32.

With its Lucas Dolega Award, which was announced annually for the first time at the end of August 2011, the Lucas Dolega Society would like to honor photojournalists "who risk their lives in areas of crisis and conflict."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ French photographer Lucas Dolega has died. (No longer available online.) In: British Journal of Photography. January 17, 2010; Archived from the original on March 30, 2011 ; accessed on January 19, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bjp-online.com
  2. ↑ Press release on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency
  3. ↑ Le photographe blessé en Tunisie dans un état “critique” mais pas mort. (No longer available online.) In: L'essentiel Online. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; Retrieved January 19, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lessentiel.lu
  4. ↑ Press release on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency
  5. ↑ Press release on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency
  6. ↑ Press release on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visapourlimage.com
  8. ↑ Photojournalist has died. In: 20 minutes online. January 17, 2010, accessed January 19, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visapourlimage.com
  10. ↑ Press release of the European Pressphoto Agency
  11. ^ " French photographer dies from injury sustained on the day of Ben Ali's departure ", Reporters without Borders, January 18, 2011; " French photographer dies after being hit by police teargas canister in Tunisia ", The Guardian, January 16, 2011. Both accessed January 23, 2011.
  12. ↑ " French photographer hurt in Tunisia protests dies ", Reuters, January 17, 2011. Accessed January 22, 2011.
  13. ↑ Lucas Dolega Award launched  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , art-magazin.de , August 22, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Dolega, Lucas Mebrouk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2011
Place of death Tunis