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What is First Lines, two of whose employees were injured in Paris?

9/25/2020, 3:36:01 PM

The Première Lignes Television agency is known in particular for producing "Cash Investigation". It was founded by journalist Paul Moreira


A gendarme at the scene of the stabbing attack in Paris, September 25, 2020. -

GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP

After the terrorist attack on

Charlie Hebdo

in January 2015, the news agency and audiovisual production company Première Lignes Télévision is once again in the midst of an attack.

This Friday morning, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, two of its employees on break in front of the company's premises near the former premises of

Charlie Hebdo 

were injured by blows with a large butcher's knife.

First Lines Television is a company specializing in investigative journalism.

It was founded in 2006 by journalist Paul Moreira, who notably created the investigative magazine

90 minutes

 on Canal +.

After stopping the magazine, he founded the production company, and his first documentary, on Iraq, won several awards.

He was joined in 2009 by another former Canal + journalist, Luc Hermann, with whom he had worked for

90 minutes

.

Co-productions with the BBC or Netflix

First Lines has produced many documentaries and investigative programs since its creation.

The agency is particularly known in the audiovisual sector for being since 2011 the producer of the magazine of France 2 presented by Elise Lucet,

Cash Investigation

.

It also produces

Vert de rage

, surveys on environmental issues broadcast on France 5 and short programs for the web.

First Lines Television has also developed co-productions with the BBC, the American channel HBO, the Netflix platform and forged partnerships with collectives and other investigative media, in particular within the framework of major collaborative investigations such as the “Panama Papers”. .

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