A survey by the "World" on feminicides, awarded the Visa d'Or for digital information
Cover of the special section containing the “World” survey on feminicides.
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"Feminicides: mechanics of an announced crime", the result of a year of investigation by the editorial staff of the French daily Le Monde, was awarded this Thursday, September 3, the Visa d'or for digital information at the international photojournalism festival Visa for the image 2020.
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For a year, a dozen journalists from
Le Monde
dissected the 120 or so feminicides identified in France in 2018. They told the stories of the male perpetrators and the female victims.
They met their devastated relatives, but also the police, gendarmes, magistrates or social workers to understand how these murders could have occurred.
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From this systematic work, it emerges that these crimes are most often the result of a mechanism that could have, and should have been identified and defused,
"
wrote
Le Monde
in May 2020, publishing its
investigation
in the form of notebook associated with the daily, and coupled with a
large multimedia format
posted on its site.
This work has just been awarded the Visa d'or for digital information at the
Visa pour l'image
international photojournalism festival
, the 32nd edition of which has been maintained in Perpignan, despite the Covid-19.
The jury unanimously made its choice in the face of this investigation on a difficult subject with little presence in the media.
He praised the quality of the images by photojournalist Camille Gharbi which reinforced the power of the investigation.
The award ceremony was held Thursday evening September 3 at the Couvent des Minimes in Perpignan.
The editorial management of
Le Monde
wished to donate the amount of the prize, ie 8,000 euros, to the
Maison des femmes
de Saint-Denis, which welcomes all vulnerable women or victims of violence.
The Visa d'or for digital information is organized by the Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan festival with the support of public service audiovisual media: France Médias Monde, France Télévisions, Radio France and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA). Faced with the constant flow of information, this prize rewards a project, a content, a digital creation - virtual reality, interactivity, video edited and posted on social networks ... - distinguished by the choice, the original treatment of a subject topicality and the use of new multimedia tools.
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