Photo of journalist wrongly used in tribute to slain professor

This Saturday, parents of students began to pay tribute to the teacher killed in Conflans-Saint-Honorine the day before.

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“This young man had one of the most beautiful jobs.

He awakened and intellectually enriched the children of Yvelines.

Like this message posted by a Facebook user, digital tributes have been pouring in since the murder of a history-geography professor on Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).

The 18-year-old suspect, who was killed by the police, is suspected of having beheaded the teacher on the grounds that he had shown the famous caricatures of Muhammad to some of these 4th year students.

A "characterized Islamist terrorist attack", for Emmanuel Macron.

Problem, some publications are illustrated, wrongly, with a portrait of a journalist from

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One of these posts is particularly viral, having been shared more than 4,000 times and viewed 130,000 times in twelve hours.

Another post was shared over 300 times in a matter of hours.

The photo of a reporter from "20 Minutes" is misused - Screenshot

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Journalist at

since 2017, Thibaut Chevillard specializes in the coverage of various facts, in particular.

He was the author of the first article posted on our site about the Conflans-Saint-Honorine attack.

Posted at 6:32 p.m. Friday, this article was accompanied by the journalist's signature and his photo.

It was then updated several times to relay the new information we had, and with the help of another journalist from the editorial staff.

It is undoubtedly because of the signature associated with the article that the portrait of the journalist was confused, probably through an image search, with that of the victim of the attack.

The error was reproduced several times on Facebook and Twitter, with the photo edited to be posted in black and white or with a blue-white-red flag in the background.

If some of these publications have been withdrawn, the

teams

are currently in charge of reporting their error to the authors of the publications, as well as to the platforms where the content was published.

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