"Faced with the obscurantism of ideas", a rally in support of Olivier Dubois was organized Thursday in Avignon where the journalist, hostage for more than nine months in Mali, was a high school student.
"If today we are calling for mobilization for the release of Olivier Dubois, it is because we consider it essential to fight against those who would like to restrict information", declared the mayor. socialist of Avignon, Cécile Helle, present at this gathering which brought together 200 people according to the organizers.
Kidnapped since April 8
Many students from Lycée Mistral, where Olivier Dubois obtained his cinema baccalaureate in 1995, had made the trip, as well as the association of former students.
Two high school students read a text they had written on freedom of the press, explaining how this very theoretical notion took on its full value here.
A portrait has been deployed on the Town Hall of Avignon for ten days as in other cities in France.
The 47-year-old freelance journalist, living and working in Mali since 2015, announced his kidnapping himself in a video posted on social networks on May 5.
He then explained that he had been kidnapped on April 8 in Gao, in northern Mali, by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel, linked to Al-Qaeda.
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