François Sergent
François Sergent is a French journalist. He has been a leader writer and deputy editor of Libération since 2007, after joining the paper in 1981. He was previously the Paris daily's correspondent in London, then Washington, as well as its foreign desk chief.
Updated: 20 March 2012
France is in a state of shock after the assassination of three French soldiers of North African descent and of three Jewish children and their teacher by, according to police sources, the same killer. Coming just weeks ahead of the French presidential election, Libération calls on politicians not to exploit these events.