Europe 1 with AFP 8:51 p.m., October 09, 2021, modified at 9:33 p.m., October 09, 2021

The Bayeux War Correspondents Prize rewarded journalist Margaux Benn on radio for "In Kandahar, entire villages have become mined land", her report broadcast on Europe 1. 

The Bayeux Calvados-Normandie War Correspondents Prize was awarded on Saturday to reports broadcast by Zeit Magazin in the written press, The New York Times in photos, Europe 1 on radio and the BBC on TV.

Margaux Benn, great reporter, was rewarded for her report "In Kandahar, entire villages have become mined land", broadcast on Europe 1. 

A report to understand the strategy of the Taliban

The work of Margaux Benn makes it possible to "understand the strategy of the Taliban in Afghanistan", declared the president of the jury.

In the written press, Wolfgang Bauer, born in 1970, received both the international jury prize, chaired by the great Franco-Iranian reporter Manoocher Deghati, and the Ouest-France Jean-Marin prize.

Already crowned in Bayeux in 2016 for a report in Nigeria, he is this time rewarded for an article published by the German newspaper Zeit Magazin, "Among Taliban" ("among the Taliban").

It is a report which "analyzes well the strategy of the Taliban", their advance "kilometer by kilometer", "village by village" from the mountains where they were withdrawn since 2001, explained to AFP the president of the jury, Manoocher Deghati. 

The name of a winner remains anonymous

Journalist Samuel Forey received third prize in the written press category for his coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Liberation.

The winner of the Albert-Londres Prize received the first prize in 2017 for his reporting in Mosul.

Bosnians Damir Sagolj and Danis Tanovic win both the Large Format TV category and the Video Image category.

They are rewarded for "When we were them" ("When we were them") a report with "a lot of means", according to the president of the jury, on the thousands of migrants lost in the north of Bosnia-Herzegovina and broadcast on Al Jazeera Balkans.

Journalists spent "months and months" in the field, Deghati said.

For the first time in the history of the Prize, of which it is the 28th edition, the name of a winner remains anonymous for his safety.

It is about a Burmese rewarded in photo for "The Spring Revolution" carried out in his country and published by the New York Times.