According to EFJ, this is the first case of the journalist's death as a result of a drone attack in the war in Ukraine. A Ukrainian journalist was also wounded in the same attack Heorhij Iwanczenko.
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In the issued communiqué, the federation said that the circumstances of the incident that took place on Friday morning at 9.20 local time, they are still examined, but she pointed out that Journalists were wearing protective clothing and bulletproof vests with the inscription “Press”.
A photographer reporting the war in Ukraine was killed
Lallican, who lived in Paris, carried out an order in Donbas for a photojournalist agency Hans Lucas based in Carcassonne. His works were published in many media, among others in “Le Monde”, “Le Figaro”, “Libération”, “Mediapart”, “Der Spiegel”, “Die Zeit”, “Die Welt”, “Le Temps”, “Der Standard”, “La Presse”.
In March 2022, just after the start of Russia's full -glass invasion, he went to this country, documenting the effects of war. In January this year he won the Victor Hugo Prize for Committed Photography 2024 award for the photojournalism “Suddenly the Sky Darkened” (“Suddenly the sky darkened”), dedicated to the war in Ukraine. According to EFJ, he is the 17th journalist who was killed in Ukraine from the beginning of the Russian assault in February 2022.
The French President of the French and loved ones of Lallicana was condoleted Emmanuel Macron, which on platform X emphasized that the photojournalist is “victim of Russian drones”.
