Anne-Laure Bonnel
 Anne-Laure Bonnel      (academic, documentary film maker) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1982 | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Sorbonne | |||||||||||||
| Interests | Donbas | |||||||||||||
French film maker who made two documentaries focusing on the atrocities committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias in the Donbass. The films, shot in 2015 and 2022 were made from the separatists' side, and led to losing her job and her bank account blocked.
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Anne-Laure Bonnel is a French film maker. She made two documentaries focusing on the atrocities committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias in the Donbass. The films, shot in 2015 and 2022 were made from the separatists' side, and led to several hit pieces in French media as "pro-Russian".[1]
Donbass
Bonnel returned to the Donbass four times between 2015 and 2022.[2]
In 2020, she wrote that she "refused to be called a journalist", since she had gone to the Donbass, because "extremely disappointed by the profession" and by "ashamed of the media coverage of this conflict". [3]
In 2022, when she returned to France, the people initially interested in the documentary (Radio France International) had lost interest. Bonnel then decided to put her documentary online. This decision to make the documentary public coincided with her dismissal from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.[4] According to Bonnel, the dismissal was more related to her stay in the Donbass than to the production of the film. An email from the university told her that her contract had not been extended because "she had not respected the values of the establishment."[5]
On March 4, 2022, Le Figaro published an article by Bonnel which recounted the living conditions of those who live in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, considered "terrorists" by the Kiev goverment. The article was withdrawn by the newspaper 3 days later.[5]
Bonnel’s bank account was temporarily blocked for over a month by her bank, Société Générale.[6][7]
Films
References
- ↑ https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/qui-est-la-journaliste-francaise-anne-laure-bonnel-qui-serait-censuree-pour-son-travail-sur-le-donbass-selon-moscou-20220303_ALMIPYNLQVENFN5GXN2RMQOYYE/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/c/AnneLaureBonnel-Reporter/about
- ↑ https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/qui-est-la-journaliste-francaise-anne-laure-bonnel-qui-serait-censuree-pour-son-travail-sur-le-donbass-selon-moscou-20220303_ALMIPYNLQVENFN5GXN2RMQOYYE/
- ↑ https://www.farodiroma.it/il-coraggio-di-anne-laure-bonnel-giornalista-francese-licenziata-e-minacciata-a-causa-dei-suoi-documentari-sul-donbass-v-volcic/
- ↑ a b https://lemediaen442.fr/le-figaro-censure-larticle-sur-le-donbass-de-la-journaliste-anne-laure-bonnel/
- ↑ https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/06/21/julian-assange-alina-lipp-and-anne-laure-bonnel-when-truth-becomes-a-crime-in-the-west/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/al_bonnel/status/1538188519423762437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1538188519423762437%7Ctwgr%5E80da503353d0500d0dc6b974846f9eb8d3b444e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freseauinternational.net%2Fjulian-assange-alina-lipp-et-anne-laure-bonnel-quand-la-verite-devient-un-crime-en-occident%2F
