On April 29, they tell me that they’re going to see another group of fighters. It was a trap. I got into a 4×4 with the katiba officer, my fixer and two soldiers. We came to a checkpoint where masked men took me out of the car, forced me to kneel and pretended to execute me.
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Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie Tells His True Story of Surviving 81 Days in Captivity in Syria
Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie Tells His True Story of Surviving 81 Days in Captivity in Syria
For as long as he can remember, Jonathan Alpeyrie was fascinated by history and had a fierce passion for adventure. He loved the worlds he could escape to when his father read adventure classics to him, like Call of the Wild and Moby Dick. “As I got older
For as long as he can remember, Jonathan Alpeyrie was fascinated by history and had a fierce passion for adventure. He loved the worlds he could escape to when his father read adventure classics to him, like Call of the Wild and Moby Dick. “As I got older, I was constantly reading history books, especially about Roman antiquity,” he says. “My uncles and grandparents fought in all the major wars including World War I, World War II, Indochina and Algeria. I played war in the backyard and drew maps of battles.”
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Jonathan Alpeyrie: Mokattam Fighting
Link: Jonathan Alpeyrie: Mokattam Fighting | Le Journal de la Photographie
I felt the end had come, I decided then to rush out of the house to make an escape, I ran into the courtyard which I discovered with horror was surrounded by a 3 meter wall and a closed gate. I pushed forward and jumped as I high as I could to start climbing the gate. With all the energy I could muster, I pulled myself to the top of the gate, while some hands tried to grab me. I manage to jump on the other side, while dozens of screaming men, furious that I had tried to force the gate