Laurent Richard

Laurent Richard is a journalist, executive producer of investigative documentaries, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories. For more than 20 years, Laurent Richard has been conducting international investigations and major reports for television. At the age of 25, he left for the Kashmir valley to film the conflict between India and Pakistan, and for Palestine when the second Intifada broke out. In 2004, he made a resounding investigation for French public television entitled “GI’S in Iraq: Forbidden Words” ( “GI’s en Irak, Paroles Interdites”). Laurent Richard is also the author of numerous investigations into the lies of the tobacco industry, the abuses of the financial sector, human rights violations in Central Asia, threats against indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon, and clandestine actions carried out by Mossad or the CIA… In 2011, he co-founded the award-winning investigative magazine “Cash Investigation” broadcast on French public television. In 2015, Laurent won the prize for best investigation at FIGRA for his documentary “My president is on a business trip”. An investigation into human rights violations and corruption rampant in Azerbaijan. The same year, on 2015 January 7th, Laurent, who was working at the news agency Premières Lignes, next door to the Charlie Hebdo team, arrived on the scene a few minutes after the terrorists had left the building. Laurent and some of his colleagues went to the Charlie Hebdo newsroom immediately to help the survivors of the attack, most of whom were journalists like themselves. This traumatic expe