Jean-Marc Théolleyre (31 July 1924 – 12 June 2001) was a 20th-century French journalist.
Jean-Marc Théolleyre | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 July 1924 |
| Died | 27 December 2001 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Biography edit
- 1943: Resistant in Lyon and then in Toulouse, he was arrested and deported to Buchenwald for nearly two years and was released in 1945.
- November 1945: joined Le Monde as reporter. Professional card #6312.
- 1950-1957: Judicial Chronicler in Le Monde. During this period he followed some of the great post-war trials like that of Amélie Rabilloud, Marie Besnard, Oradour-sur-Glane, the Dominici affair, and Jacques Fesch.
- April 1957 – November 1957: Senior reporter for Le Figaro littéraire.
- November 1957: Senior reporter for Paris-Journal.
- 1959: Retuened to Le Monde, a chief reporter and a judicial columnist. He covered trials linkes to the Algerian war as well as the réseau Jeanson, general Salan, the Semaine des barricades, and attentat du Petit-Clamart.
- 1970-75: Permanent envoy for the Rhône-Alpes region.
- From 1975: Literary critic and senior reporter in charge of the judicial chronicle.
- 1967: Vice-President of the Association of the Judicial Press.
- In 1987, he covered for Le Monde the trial in Lyon of Klaus Barbie.
Distinctions edit
- Prix Albert Londres (1959)
- Prix Louis Hachette for the print media (1988) for his paper "Klaus Barbie: nothing to say" (Klaus Barbie: rien à dire) (Le Monde).
Judicial conviction for defamation edit
Jean-Marc Théolleyre was convicted in 1983 by the Paris Court of Appeal for defamation, having suggested in his book Les néo-nazis (ed. Messidor, 1982) that "Jean-Marie Le Pen professed neo-Nazi opinions". The Court's judgment, inter alia, stated that "he did not exercise the caution, reserve and objectivity required by amalgamating or insinuating" (Paris Court of Appeal, 15 June 1983).
Bibliography edit
- 1956: Le Procès des fuites
- 1966: Ces Procès qui ébranlèrent la France
- 1977: Tout condamné à mort aura la tête tranchée
- 1982: Les néo-nazis
- 1991: L'accusée: 45 ans de justice en France, 1945-1990
- 1998: Les médias et la justice (with Henri Leclerc)