It was the newspaper
Libération
which announced the sad news.
Mélanie Houé died at just 36 years old, from a devastating illness.
“Creative, go-getter and passionate”
, she was their correspondent in Beirut.
The journalist was in fact based in Lebanon between 2013 and 2019. It was during a chance trip to visit one of her friends that she fell in love with this country.
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Since the announcement of his death, the first tributes have been published.
Karl Olive, deputy for the 12th constituency of Yvelines, greets a
“committed, available, positive and very professional”
journalist .
Mélanie Houé started on local television Yveline Première.
“His journalistic adventure in Lebanon on all fronts was an example of this unfailing commitment.
I think of her, her family and all those who, like me, were marked by this remarkable woman
,” he added in an Instagram post.
“
She was a girl who stopped at nothing, always full of projects, passionate about what she did, committed, full of empathy, generous and also irreproachable in her work
,” declared her colleague Thomas Abgrall, also a correspondent. of
Liberation
in Beirut.
Six years in Lebanon
Mélanie Houé studied the history of European construction at Paris-IV before being trained in journalism at ESJ Lille and Montpellier.
After working in the local press, she became passionate about international news.
During her career, Mélanie Houé has worked in both the written press and the audiovisual media.
She has also collaborated with RTL, as well as La Libre Belgique and the channels BFMTV, TV5 Monde and France 24.
Mélanie Houé followed the various crises that punctuate the history of Lebanon.
From corruption among the country's leaders to the fate of refugees in Raqqa, including the coastline polluted by hundreds of tons of waste.
In 2019, she moved to Qatar.
Two years later, she returned to Europe and settled in Madrid to join her partner.
In 2023, she discovered that she was suffering from a serious illness which took her away on February 9, in a hospital in Paris.