The Albert-Londres prize, the most prestigious award in the French-language press, was awarded on Tuesday. The lucky elected for the written press is Benoît Vitkine, he is the correspondent of the World in Russia. He is 36 years old and he is rewarded for a series of articles in the countries of the former USSR.
The jurors of the Albert-Londres prize put forward "the elegance of his pen, the originality of his angles and the rigor of his work". For example, he wrote about the use of football as a propaganda tool in Chechnya.
"Even talking about football is impossible with the Chechens"
Benoît Vitkine goes back on this report: "Even talking about football is impossible with the Chechens, everything is sensitive, everything is dangerous, so much so that talking about their football team, the Terek Grozny renamed the Akhmat Grozny named after the father of the president. current Ramzan Kadyrov, even that is a sensitive subject, all this to show a Chechnya going forward, a Chechnya as glorious as possible ".
The other two laureates are Marlène Rabaud for the "audiovisual" category for a documentary that follows a group of young Congolese trying to influence the heart of their country's history. And for the books, it is Feurat Alani who is distinguished from the Albert-Londres Prize for his book The perfume of Iraq . An amazing book since it is actually composed of more than a thousand tweets that tell the different trips to Iraq of a young French woman of Iraqi origin turned journalist.