Florence Hartmann

Florence Hartmann worked for eleven years for the French daily Le Monde, during the 1990s as its correspondent in the former Yugoslavia. In 1999 she published her first book, "Milosevic, la diagonale du fou", reissued by Gallimard in 2002.

From October 2000 until October 2006 she was official spokesperson and Balkan adviser to Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. Her "Paix et châtiment, Les guerres secrètes de la politique et de la justice internationales" was published by Flammarion. Paris, in September 2007.

On August 27th, 2008, she was indicted by the Tribunal for disclosing information relating to confidential decisions of the Tribunal to acquit Serbia from direct involvement in Srebrenica genocide.

References

[http://www.un.org/icty/milosevic/hartmannf/trialc/order-e/080827.pdf ICTY's Order in lieu of an indictment against Florence Hartmann]