Pierre Billaud

Pierre Billaud (21 May 1970 – 11 November 2001) was a French radio reporter and journalist.

[1] He covered the conflicts of Algeria, Israel, Palestine, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Billaud devoted various reports to the situation of the children and the women in Afghanistan.

Billaud, along with fellow French journalist Johanne Sutton and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan on 11 November 2001.

[2] The trio were traveling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.