[1][2][3] He was fatally injured on the same day that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia for exile.
Dolega was born in Paris on 19 August 1978 to a German mother and a French father, a journalist and a doctor respectively.
He had French and German citizenship, and started work as a photographer for European Pressphoto Agency in April 2006.
[5][8][9][10] Fellow photographer and friend Olivier Laban-Mattei brought Dolega's corpse back to France.
[12] Lucas Dolega is mentioned in the poem "A Love Letter from Emilie Blachère to Rémi Ochlik", written by Paris Match journalist Emilie Blachère on the occasion of the first anniversary of Rémi Ochlik's death.