Philippe Bernier
Philippe Bernier (born August 17, 1930 in Bois-Colombes , † April 17, 2000 in Toulouse ) was a French journalist .
Life
During the German occupation of France, Bernier was a member of the Francs-tireurs et partisans at the age of 14 . In the 1950s, Bernier worked as a journalist for Radio Morocco and he reported on the procedures of the French protectorate authorities and in 1953 the deportation of Mohammed V to Madagascar . Since then he had known the Moroccan opposition politician Ben Barka .
From 1958 to 1960 he was a reporter for the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française in Algiers . Nothing is known about his employment in 1965. On October 29, 1965, he had an appointment with Ben Barka at Brasserie Lipp , 151, Boulevard Saint-Germain , 75006 Paris , to present a film project on decolonization . Immediately in front of the brasserie, Ben Barka was stopped by two SDECE agents to get into a car and kidnapped in it. On the same day or the following day, Ben Barka was murdered.
Philippe Bernier co-founded Doctors Without Borders in 1971 .
Individual evidence
- ^ National Library of Australia , accessed May 19, 2010
- ↑ msf.fr , there photo of the founding meeting in 1971, accessed on May 27, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernier, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bois-Colombes |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 2000 |
| Place of death | Toulouse |