Johanne Sutton

Johanne Sutton (born December 1, 1966 in Casablanca , Morocco ; † November 11, 2001 at Dasht e-Qaleh , Takhar Province , northeast Afghanistan ) was a French radio journalist and reporter . In 2001 she died in northeast Afghanistan together with her French colleague Pierre Billaud and the German reporter Volker Handloik , who reported for stern . Taliban had attacked the armored vehicle in which she and five other journalists from Europe and Australia were traveling in the Kalakata Mountains with the Northern Alliance commander Amer Bashir.

Johanne Sutton graduated from the College of Journalism (École supérieure de journalisme) in Lille in 1990 with a diploma in journalism . She then worked for Radio France Internationale (RFI), which broadcasts in 20 languages. She was initially a correspondent in Great Britain. She later reported on the trial of the then French mineral oil company Elf Aquitaine , the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, the war in Kosovo and repeatedly on the conflict in the Middle East.