Reporters’ Memorial

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Thursday 10 October  – 5 pm

Reporters’ Memorial

2023-2024 Commemorative stone

On Thursday 10 October, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will pay tribute to journalists killed in the line of duty over the past year. At a ceremony at the Reporters’ Memorial, RSF Director General Thibaut Bruttin will unveil a stele in their memory, in the presence of their families.

The names of 58 journalists have been engraved in white marble this year. The year was a particularly deadly one, with the heavy toll paid by Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza by the Israeli army. RSF and the Bayeux Award will pay collective tribute to them by planting an olive tree at the Reporters’ Memorial.
A war that also killed three journalists in Lebanon, including Issam Abdallah on 13 October 2023. His colleagues Christina Assi and Dylan Collins – survivors of the attack that cost him his life – will be present in Bayeux. longside RSF’s Gaza correspondent Ola Al Zaanoun and her husband, AFP correspondent Adel Al Zaanoun, they will talk about what has become of their profession in wartime. Finally, the daughter of Mexican journalist Luis Martín Sánchez, murdered in July 2023, will pay tribute to her father, as well as to all those journalists who have paid with their lives for the right to inform.

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Mémorial des reporters
Boulevard Fabian Ware
Direct access from rue de Verdun
Free admission