Olivier Sureau covered news from Val-d'Oise for Le Parisien for years. He was probably the first journalist in the world to arrive at the scene of the Concorde crash in Gonesse.

He had faith. That of reporting images that frighten or terrify but which often speak much better than a text. Pimpon had a bad character that he abandoned almost only during ministerial visits, which he pretended to hate but of which he returned proud... with twelve rolls of film to develop.