Régis Le Sommier (born c. 1969) is a French
journalist.
Biography
Régis Le Sommier was co-editor of ''
Paris Match'' magazine. As a senior reporter and US Bureau Chief from 2003 to 2009 of the largest French weekly publication and fifth most read in the world, Paris Match, he has made journalistic reports of the most important events of the past decade.
In addition to being the only French journalist to have sat down in the
White House with
President George W. Bush for a one-on-one, he also interviewed President
Barack Obama,
Donald Rumsfeld
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,
Colin Powell
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, Al Gore,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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, Garry Kasparov, Alan Greenspan, John McCain, General Petraeus in Bagdad and General McChrystal in Kabul. He has written journalistic reports about Katrina, Guantanamo, immigration and drug trails in
Mexico and
Central America, and the ravages of
foreclosure
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Formally, a mortg ...
s in Cleveland.
In Central America, he has published articles about
Guatemala
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and
Venezuela, including one on El Sistema, the state-run program that gives access to
classical music
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to poor children from the
Caracas
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barrios.
He was a news reporter during the 2004 and 2008
US presidential elections. Between 2006 and 2008 he made three trips to
Iraq, and two in 2010 to
Afghanistan where he embedded with various units from the Army and the Marines. He also published several stories on wounded veterans.
He joined
RT France in 2021 until the Russian media was banned by the French government in March 2022.
But actually, he became the managing editor of Omerta in November 2022. He went to Both Ukraine and Russia and reported his observation in the french media
Publications
He is the author of « Les Damnés du Prestige » (2003) about the oil spill in Spain and a second book on the Iraq war (« L’Irak n’existe plus », mars 2008, Ed. du Toucan). In addition, he also published the first biography in French of the former CIA director, David H. Petraeus (« David Petraeus, un beau jour dans la vallée du Tigre », 2012, Editions Erick Bonnier). More recently, he published an historical essay (« Les Mystères d’Oradour. Du temps du deuil à la quête de la vérité », 2014, Editions Michel Lafon). And in January 2018 he published a book called "Assad" that talks about Syria and the current president Bachar Al Assad.
References
External links
Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Sommier, Regis
1969 births
Living people
French male journalists
French male non-fiction writers
Writers from Toulon