Lucas Dolega

Lucas Mebrouk Dolega ( born August 19, 1978 in Paris, † January 17, 2011 in Tunis ) was a German - French photojournalist. Dolega died on 17 January 2011 after he had been taken a few days earlier as part of the coverage of the riots in Tunis by a tear gas grenade at close range in the head.

Life

Dolegas real name was Loucas of Zabiensky - Mebrouk. He arrived in 1978 as the son of a German journalist and a French physician, in Paris and had both the German and French citizenship. In April 2006 Dolega began his work for the European Pressphoto Agency ( EPA ) in Paris. In 2008, he documented among other things photographically the situation in the Congo.

On 14 January 2011 one day after his arrival in Tunis, and at the end of a demonstration in the Avenue Bourguiba to Dolega was in a group of journalists at the corner of rue Gandhi and rue de Marseille. During his photojournalistic use in riots in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution in the Tunisian capital Tunis met him there one in from close range by police officers fired into the group of photographers tear gas canister, which had a diameter of 5 cm and was 20 cm long. You hurt Dolega hard on the eye and the left temple.

After the first aid by reporter colleagues, he was driven to the clinic ' Le Secours ', where he was stabilized in Tunis Rabta Neurologic Hospital before laying. In Tunis Rabta Neurologic Hospital, he was operated on immediately, in the course of the weekend then rapidly deteriorated his already critical state. On the morning of January 17, 2011 Loucas succumbed From Zabiensky - Mebrouk, aka Lucas Dolega, his injuries.

According to Reporters Without Borders Dolega was the first foreign journalist to be killed in the course of the Jasmine Revolution. Dolega died at the age of 32 years.

The Lucas Dolega Society wishes with her - the first time the end of August 2011 - worthy proclaimed annually Lucas Dolega Award photojournalists, " who risk their lives in crisis and conflict areas. "