The French war reporter and documentary film director Anne-Laure Bonnel denounced this Saturday that the newspaper Le Figaro deleted her article on the life of the civilian population of Donbass in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine.
“Le Figaro has just withdrawn my already published article and makes it invisible from now on. Why? Ask about it. Be outraged,” the journalist tweeted. She attached the screenshot showing the link to the post, titled ‘The Donbass, where it all began’, on the daily’s Facebook account.
“I did my job, now it’s your turn to ask for explanations. For my part, I stop there. Mass has been said. Censorship,” added Bonnel.
The newspaper itself has not commented on the decision. Meanwhile, in recent days, the journalist, who covers the conflict in Ukraine from the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, has been criticized for denouncing only the actions of the Ukrainian troops.
In particular, the newspaper Liberation accused her of “sticking to the arguments of the Russian authorities”, for which she announced on March 1 that she would bring him to justice for defamation. “There are wounded, there are dead that I film, that I photograph daily,” Bonnel told the CNews channel that day, stating that her work “has no political message.” “I only know that we have been talking about this conflict for a week, but it has been going on for 8 years,” she said.
In 2015, Bonnel produced the documentary film ‘Donbass’, released in 2016. In 2020, he released a new documentary, ‘Silence in Upper Karabakh’.
