Véronique Robert

Véronique Robert (1962 - 24 June 2017) was a Franco-Swiss journalist and war correspondent, who died in a Paris hospital on 24 June 2017, after being wounded in an explosion in Mosul, Iraq, on 19 June.

Robert was wounded in the same mine explosion that killed Iraqi journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad and the French journalist Stephane Villeneuve, and wounded Samuel Foley, who works for Le Figaro.[2] Robert and Villeneuve were working for France Télévisions on a report for the French TV documentary show Envoyé spécial.

In 2007, one of her sons was raped in Dubai, prompting her to launch a campaign against the authorities.