David Thomson

About the author

David Thomson is a journalist and senior reporter for RFI’s Africa desk. He has become one of the leading specialists on French and Tunisian jihadists. After joining Radio France Internationale in 2009, he became its correspondent in Tunisia during the 2010–2011 revolution, then covered the war in Libya in 2011.

In 2014 he published the first major investigation into the French who had gone to fight in Syria, based on the accounts of some twenty French jihadists. For this book he received the Grand Prix de la presse internationale in 2016 and the prestigious Albert Londres Prize in the book category in 2017.