Gaspard Glanz

Gaspard Glanz (born 22 April 1987) is a French videojournalist.

He manages the website Taranis News, which he founded in 2011.

Early life Gaspard Glanz was born on 22 April 1987 in Strasbourg, France.

He was a student at Lycée Kléber in 2006. He worked as one of the leaders of UNL trade union in Strasbourg during protests against First Employment Contract. He was sentenced for outrage against management and staff of a Strasbourg high school. He obtained a degree in criminal sociology at University of Rennes 2.

He is an autodidact in journalism. and Yellow vests movement.

Critics question his quality of journalism, in particular the fact that he does not have a press card.

He collaborates as a stringer for online media, such as Rue89 Strasbourg or Reporterre.

During the summer of 2015, he made a film about the exodus of refugees in the Balkans.

Arrested in the Calais Jungle in October 2016, he was arrested and prohibited from staying throughout the Pas-de-Calais. He learned while in custody that he was the subject of a fiche S. According to the newspaper Le Point, Glanz was "sentenced four times, the last in 2017 for theft by the Boulogne-sur-Mer Criminal Court, while covering the evacuation of the Calais jungle". e is accused of stealing a CRS walkie-talkie that he claims to have picked up from the ground. and denounces a "judicial harassment". In his S sheet, it is noted that he would be "a member of the anarcho-autonomous movement and susceptible to violent action".