Jean-Marc Théolleyre

Jean-Marc Théolleyre (31 July 1924 – 12 June 2001) was a 20th-century French journalist.

Biography

 * 1943: Resistant in Lyon and then in Toulouse, he was arrested and deported to Buchenwald for nearly two years and was released in 1945.
 * November 1945: joined Le Monde as reporter. Professional card #6312.
 * 1950-1957: Judicial Chronicler in Le Monde. During this period he followed some of the great post-war trials like that of Amélie Rabilloud, Marie Besnard, Oradour-sur-Glane, the Dominici affair, and Jacques Fesch.
 * April 1957 – November 1957: Senior reporter for Le Figaro littéraire.
 * November 1957: Senior reporter for Paris-Journal.
 * 1959: Retuened to Le Monde, a chief reporter and a judicial columnist. He covered trials linkes to the Algerian war as well as the réseau Jeanson, general Salan, the Semaine des barricades, and attentat du Petit-Clamart.
 * 1970-75: Permanent envoy for the Rhône-Alpes region.
 * From 1975: Literary critic and senior reporter in charge of the judicial chronicle.
 * 1967: Vice-President of the Association of the Judicial Press.
 * In 1987, he covered for Le Monde the trial in Lyon of Klaus Barbie.

Distinctions

 * Prix Albert Londres (1959)
 * Prix Louis Hachette for the print media (1988) for his paper "Klaus Barbie: nothing to say" (Klaus Barbie: rien à dire) (Le Monde).

Judicial conviction for defamation
Jean-Marc Théolleyre was convicted in 1983 by the Paris Court of Appeal for defamation, having suggested in his book Les néo-nazis (ed. Messidor, 1982) that "Jean-Marie Le Pen professed neo-Nazi opinions". The Court's judgment, inter alia, stated that "he did not exercise the caution, reserve and objectivity required by amalgamating or insinuating" (Paris Court of Appeal, 15 June 1983).