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Gaspard Glanz | |
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Born | 22 April 1987 |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 2009–present |
Gaspard Glanz (born 22 April 1987) is a French videojournalist.
He manages the website Taranis News, which he founded in 2011.
Gaspard Glanz was born on 22 April 1987 in Strasbourg, France. [1] [2]
He was a student at Lycée Kléber [3] in 2006. He worked as one of the leaders of UNL trade union in Strasbourg during protests against First Employment Contract. He was sentenced for outrage against management and staff of a Strasbourg high school. [4] [5] He obtained a degree in criminal sociology at University of Rennes 2. [6]
He is an autodidact in journalism. [6] He began his career in 2009 during Strasbourg–Kehl summit. [4]
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Gaspard Glanz was the founder in 2011 of information website Taranis News [6] , which mostly focuses on news of Social movements, or what he refers to as "street journalism". He films and photographs at ZAD of Sivens Dam and Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the Calais Jungle, Paris while protests against El Khomri law, Nuit debout movement [7] and Yellow vests movement. [8]
Critics question his quality of journalism, in particular the fact that he does not have a press card. [9]
He collaborates as a stringer for online media, such as Rue89 Strasbourg or Reporterre. [10]
During the summer of 2015, he made a film about the exodus of refugees in the Balkans. [8]
In November 2015, while covering a militant action against a bank in collaboration with Rue89 Strasbourg, he was arrested, but refused to give up his images. [11] [12]
Arrested in the Calais Jungle in October 2016, he was arrested [13] and prohibited from staying throughout the Pas-de-Calais. [14] [15] He learned while in custody that he was the subject of a fiche S. [16] According to the newspaper Le Point , Glanz was "sentenced four times, the last in 2017 for theft by the Boulogne-sur-Mer Criminal Court, while covering the evacuation of the Calais jungle". [17] e is accused of stealing a CRS walkie-talkie that he claims to have picked up from the ground. [4]
In 2017, he received threats on social media, after having said that police officers frequently pose as journalists during demonstrations. [14] He is the subject of a fiche S , [18] [19] and denounces a "judicial harassment". [20] In his S sheet, it is noted that he would be "a member of the anarcho-autonomous movement and susceptible to violent action". [17]
In July 2018, images shot by Gaspard Glanz and Clément Lanot entered the record of the parliamentary commission gathered to shed light on the Benalla affair. [21]