Pierre Strainer (1944-1991)
Pierre Blanchet is a journalist French, born in 1944 and died in 1991 at the time of a report in Croatia.
Biography
Wire of a commander died during the program of Normandy, Companion of the Release, Pierre Blanchet is adopted by a friend of its father, the officer Georges Buis. May 68 marks it so deeply that in 1969, it leaves the University to live an experiment ouvrierist with Grenoble and to animate and frame agitation Maoist there. It is there that it mutilates the hand with a machine of a factory of tractor where it had been made engage. After a passage to Sochaux, it tries “to marry paces of Parisian intellectual who it did not want to be, with a working ideal, which it will be never”. Its relationships to mobility Maoist enable him, in 1974, to enter to the daily newspaper Libération to treat social questions with it. But its fiber third-mondiste and anti-impérialiste leads it to cover the foreigner gradually.
Thus, in 1979, the revolution khomeynist crystallizes all his hopes and leads it to publish, with its wife Claire Brière, " Iran: the revolution in the name of Dieu" (the Threshold, 1979). Including/understanding a long discussion with Michel Foucault, this work illustrates its enthusiasm for the aspects antiaméricains, antiautoritaires and anti-Westerners of the Iranian movement. Its bringing together with this philosopher who is a friend of foreground of the Nouvel Observateur as the collaboration of his adoptive father to this magazine as from March 1979 brings it to feel “nearer to “Nouvel Obs civilization”” than of Release. In September 1979, it thus joined the weekly magazine.
Until September 1981, it covers there mainly Afghanistan and Iran. It treats then Irish, Libyan terrorism or of extreme left and, to a lesser extent, Poland about which it interview Michel Foucault, Bernard Kouchner and Simone Signoret (October 9th, 1982). If it is sent in report in South Africa or Lebanon, it has a particular predilection for the Latin America which it treats in particular for El Salvador. After 1989, it is sent in Eastern Europe (particularly in Poland) then in Syria and Jordan at the time of the war of the Gulf. Special correspondent during the war of Balkans, it dies in Croatia on September 19th, 1991.
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