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‘Behind closed doors’: the new normal in sport

Tuesday 12 January 2021

As the players emerge from the tunnel for their final warmup before kickoff, the absence of young mascots strikes you - and there no handshakes with the opposition. The referee blows his whistle... and a deathly silence envelops the stadium. That is the reality of covering live sport in the age of coronavirus, as AFP's sports correspondent in western France, Fanny Carrier, explains.

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'We have a boy!'

Friday 10 June 2016

I am finishing up my story for the day when Captain Alex, red with joy, runs onto the bridge, smiling.

“We have a boy! I feel like I'm the father!"

In May, AFP's deputy bureau chief in Rome Fanny Carrier spent a week aboard the Aquarius, one of a small armada of ships that are rescuing migrants all along the Libyan coast. This is the third and final part of her series on the voyage.

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‘Here, we are alive. There, we were no longer men’

Thursday 9 June 2016

“Thank you and goodbye,” Captain Alex says to the captain of the tug boat over the radio. “I hope we’ll meet another time in different circumstances.”

“I hope not,” comes the reply.

In May, AFP's deputy bureau chief in Rome Fanny Carrier spent a week aboard the Aquarius, one of a small armada of ships that are rescuing migrants all along the Libyan coast. This is the second of a three-part series on the voyage.

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‘If we don’t go, how many will die?’

Wednesday 8 June 2016

"That night, I have trouble falling asleep. I look ahead of us, into the darkness, toward Libya," writes Fanny Carrier, AFP's deputy bureau chief in Rome.

"There, at this very moment, smugglers are in the process of getting the people who have paid them enormous amounts of money to the coast, to be loaded onto dinghies that often are hardly more solid than beach toys, then take off to the open sea in darkness."

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When the big boat comes too late

Thursday 30 April 2015

"Migrant landings in the ports of southern Italy follow a well-worn pattern," writes AFP's Fanny Carrier, who was in Sicily this month to report on the deadliest week in the Mediterranean migrant crisis. "Out on the ship’s deck, the men, women and children sit surrounded by rescuers and humanitarian workers in white protective suits, gloves and masks. Their stories are all similar, all harrowing. They tell of a fraught, ruinously expensive journey across Africa, the perilous crossing of the Sahara, their arrival in Libya. They tell of the violence of militias and people-smugglers. They tell of their fear on board the boat, of water seeping in, of the rescuers who barely reached them in time. And finally, of reaching a safe shore."

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