A summer of fire in Sarajevo – Correspondent

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une 1995: summer was just beginning in Paris when I was called over to the editor-in-chief’s desk. AFP was urgently looking for someone to run the bureau until September in war-ravaged, besieged Sarajevo. Naturally I accepted, though I knew the mission would be tough.