Cambodia, Afghanistan, Congo… Dorothée Olliéric is a war reporter for France 2 and covers numerous conflicts. The latest one? Ukraine. In the number ofA Sunday in the countryside this January 26, she returns to the harsh reality of her job. “For 2 and a half years, we’ve spent 4-5 weeks there each time, we get back up, there are 3-4 of us. And it lasts, it becomes more and more dangerous, more and more difficult. We are really going to front line, we’re going into the trenches”she explains.
Dorothée Olliéric: “I have a knot in my stomach”
Once back home, she “don’t tell about the worst moments” that she saw or experienced. “It would be too hard after leaving, especially since I know that I am going to go back to Ukraine. It’s too heavy to let go of a mother, a wife.”she slips. In his book Mom is going to war, published on September 4, by Editions Du Rocher, Dorothée Olliéric recalls all her reporting memories. She also talks about the guilt and fear of leaving her children behind. “The guilt, it’s there, it’s permanent, it’s intense, it’s important. Before the children, nothing, not even afraid. Fear of nothing, of no one. Afterwards, I have children, so now, I have a kind of lump in the stomach, in the heartas I leave”confides the journalist.
Dorothée Olliéric, in tears, confides in “the most difficult moment”
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