A year following her father’s death, she learns to live without him. She confided exclusively in Paris Match.
Stella Belmondo, such a discreet heiress
She was, he said, his “last great love”. “My joie de vivre, a wonderful gift of life. Stella was born when Jean-Paul Belmondo was celebrating his 70th birthday. He will have been for her a tender and funny father, less authoritarian than for his other children. A model of courage also which helps the youngest of the Belmondos to chart her course despite the grief. A simple and wise student, living in London for a year, Stella has now regained enough strength to evoke the bond that unites her to her father.
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“…I never had the image of a sick or elderly father who might have made me pity, quite the contrary…”.
Interview Ghislain Loustalot
Iran: the imperial family enters the battle
Three generations of Pahlavi brandish the slogan of revolt. In her life, Farah Diba, third and last wife of Mohammad Reza, never wore the headscarf, except to enter a mosque. Until her husband’s fall in 1979, she was the first to encourage laws favoring female emancipation: the right to vote, authorization to divorce, access to functions hitherto reserved for men… Forty-three years old of exile did not affect his Persian soul. She testifies to her admiration for the courage of the women of her country and promises them: “One day Iran, the real one, will be reborn. »
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« …Farah Pahlavi : In forty-three years of power, the mullahs have not succeeded in breaking freedom of thought. Despite their propaganda, the real Iranians are rising up. I have goosebumps…”
Interview Catherine Schwaab
Tomb for Oksana
In Ukraine, the Russians make rape a daily weapon of war. In Boutcha, Match found insupportable proof of one of these crimes.
She was 34 years old, a little girl of 5 years old and, unfortunately, a grandmother who lived in Boutcha. Case no. 675 might have been part of the tragedy of the bodies found following the departure of the 64th motorized rifle brigade of the Russian army, commanded by Azatbek Omurbekov, known as “the butcher of Boutcha”. Two great reporters, one who had witnessed the discovery of the remains, the other who had been shocked by the resulting snapshot, gave themselves the mission of giving Oksana back her story. So that no one can ever doubt the reality of this war crime.
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« …Irina Pryanishnikova, spokeswoman for the police of Kiev: […] « [La victime] was too damaged. Stabbed, mutilated in several parts of the body… Bitten then executed with three bullets in the head. His face was unrecognizable. Identification was difficult. It is for this reason that we released the photos of the body found at the back of the shed. The images are terrible, but the families of the disappeared force themselves to watch them. It was Oksana’s mother who recognized her…”
Photos and report Florent Marcie and Patrick Chauvel
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