Veronique Robert
Year: 2017
Nationality: France
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Mosul, Iraq
Press organization: #5BisProduction
What's Veronique Robert's story?
Veronique Robert, who held French and Swiss nationalities, died in Paris on June 24, 2017, of wounds she sustained on June 19 while reporting on elite Iraqi soldiers’ battle to retake central Mosul from militants from the Islamic State group. Robert, her colleague from the production house #5BisProductions Stephane Villeneuve, and Iraqi fixer Bakhtiyar Haddad, all died of injuries they sustained when an improvised explosive device exploded as they traveled by foot through Mosul’s old city with Iraqi Special Forces, according to news reports. French freelance journalist Samuel Forey was also embedded with the group but was only lightly injured, Forey wrote on social media.
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