French journalist and renowned Middle East expert Marine Vlahovic was found dead at her home in Marseille on Monday, November 27.

According to reports by La Provence, her body was discovered on the roof terrace of her residence by friends who had grown concerned after she failed to respond to calls or messages. She was 39 years old.

According to ARTE Radio, Marine Vlahovic had dedicated part of her short life to the Palestinian cause.

In Gaza Calling, she compiled video and voice messages from her colleagues and friends in Gaza, trapped under the bombs.

  • hackerwacker@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Authorities in Marseille have launched an investigation to determine the cause of Vlahovic's death.

    They'll get to it just after they figure out who blew up NordStream 2

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 days ago

      The very important difference is that (apparently) murdering journalists is bad, but destroying disgusting pipelines controlled by fascist capitalists is actually good.

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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        20 days ago

        disgusting pipelines controlled by fascist capitalists

        It wasnt Germany who controlled it, it just delivered the gas to them, it was Russia who controlled it.

          • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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            19 days ago

            Imagine how sad Americans are going to be when they find out how many lies their media peddles about American foreign policy and world powers it can paint as adversaries when that foreign policy inevitably does what it was always designed to do - keep the war machine turning.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            19 days ago

            Maybe I'm dating myself, but when I see comments like this it reminds me of Home Alone. Specifically the part of Home Alone where Kevin's siblings are telling him lurid and outlandish horror stories about the old guy who lives next door, which all obviously turn out to be wild bullshit.

            I think of this when I see people who have clearly only heard about hexbear secondhand from the bitterly banned, try to make fun of it with no real information to work from. Yeah man, we're all communists but we all somehow missed the memo about 1991, that makes sense. You remind me of when I used to be a liberal who made Winnie the pooh jokes to Chinese people, just so far out of your depth that you can't even perceive how deeply embarrassing you're being.

            • anachronist@midwest.social
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              19 days ago

              Most of the hexbear people I run into here are not even communists and barely know the first thing about communism (there are a few exceptions).

              Most are just wumaos (or 50 cent army) who dogmatically post the "CPC" party line, or whatever RT is posting, as well as posting right wingers and neoliberals like the Daily Caller or Jeffery Sachs because they agree with the propaganda they're consuming/spreading. They have George Bush level logic: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" assuming that if the US is bad then, transitively, Russia and China are good. The idea that all three are terrible, in different ways, seems to be too much for them.

              • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                19 days ago

                Most of the hexbear people I run into here are not even communists and barely know the first thing about communism

                Well damn, I guess I must have hallucinated all the monthly book clubs. But hey, I don't want to be trafficking with fake communists, so I'm very glad I ran into you! Can you please tell me where the hexbears have gone wrong so that I and others may avoid repeating their mistakes? It's only the comradely thing to do, and besides, it would be dangerous and irresponsible to leave misinformation uncountered. So, what is the "first thing" about communism that they're missing?

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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            19 days ago

            Imagine how stupid anachronist is gonna look when they find out we already know. Russia has been a liberal western democracy for over 30 years now.

                • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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                  19 days ago

                  An oligarchy is not a democracy... Not even a "liberal western democracy", aka "Constitutional Democratic Republic"...

                  Now, if you wanna get all pedantic and all, we certainly can.

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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            19 days ago

            Oh, you're just stupid. YES SWEETIE, OBVIOUSLY THE RUSSIANS ARE FASCISTS, YOU KEEP EATING YOUR OATMEAL AND WATCHING FOX NEWS.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      "She was so overcome by the guilt of being an antisemitic terrorist removed that she climbed up on that roof, tied herself up, and shot herself twice in the back of the head."

  • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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    20 days ago

    While the circumstances remain unclear, police have stated that there is no initial evidence that a crime has been committed.

    Are you fucking kidding me

  • ad_on_is@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    It's disgusting to go after journalists who do nothing but uncover the truth.

    Stories like these might frighten journalist, leading us into a dystopian world of wars and lies.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    20 days ago

    No cause of death stated, which makes me think it's either something subtle and hard to detect like a poison, or something unpublishably obvious like a bullet

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    They have murdered far more journalists in and around Gaza and in Lebanon and assassinated who knows how many others overseas.

  • bdazman [none/use any]
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    20 days ago

    Somebody fucking protect Norman Finkelstein before his neighborhood mossad members get his ass

  • Zement@feddit.nl
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    19 days ago

    The Saudis used a bonesaw to make kashoggi disappear... the Israelis want to send a message:

    We are not acting like the good guys any more.

    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 days ago

      You don't give people who have been murdering journalists, aid workers, and medical personal the benefit of the doubt. you assume and absolve them later if facts don't substantiate it. this isnt a trial there isn't an individual being accused. its a state with a history of murdering people like this reporter. you stop associating with them. which is precisely what biden should have done a year ago.