Florence Aubenas
Florence Aubenas (born February 6, 1961 in Brussels , Belgium ) is a French journalist who works for the Nouvel Observateur . Before that she worked for the left-wing liberal daily Liberation . She and her Arabic translator were kidnapped by Islamist hostage-takers in Iraq in 2005 and released after 157 days in captivity .
Life
Florence Aubenas was born in Belgium, but has French nationality. She is the daughter of an EU - diplomats and a film critic . She completed her training at the Center de formation des journalistes school in Paris until she graduated in 1984 .
Among other things, she worked for the business magazine Le Nouvel Économiste . The experienced journalist has worked for the left-liberal Liberation since 1986 . Among other things, Florence Aubenas worked in war and crisis areas such as Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a co-author, Florence Aubenas wrote several books, such as about the genocide in Rwanda, the mechanisms of the media market or globalization (among others together with Miguel Benasayag ).
In February 2010, her experience report as a cleaning lady in France in the style of Günter Wallraff was published in book form. The book quickly developed into a bestseller and was also published in German translation.
kidnapping
On January 5, 2005, she and her translator Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi were kidnapped in Baghdad University . She was working on a report on refugees from Fallujah . On March 1, 2005, the Reuters news agency in Baghdad saw a 26-second kidnapping video showing Florence Aubenas.
She had asked the French politician Didier Julia for support for her release. In this video message she spoke in English when she was in poor health . Florence Aubenas received a lot of support during her imprisonment .
The French Foreign Ministry announced that Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi had been released in Iraq on the evening of June 11, 2005. On the afternoon of June 12, 2005, she was flown from Baghdad to Paris by plane and met by French President Jacques Chirac at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport . According to official sources, no ransom was paid.
book
- Quai de Ouistreham . Éditions de l'Olivier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8792-9677-7
- Clean! My life in the dirt . Pendo, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86612-282-6
- En France . Éditions de l'Olivier, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-8236-0775-8
Web links
- Algeria-Watch: French reporter missing in Iraq , January 10, 2005
- Reporters Without Borders: Signs of life from the kidnapped Florence Aubenas ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), March 2, 2005
- Iraq - Politics - ZEIT online: Florence Aubenas is free , June 12, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ The dirty worker , Frankfurter Rundschau from October 19, 2010
- ↑ Plaster - My life in the dirt , Tages-Anzeiger from October 19, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aubenas, Florence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |