Grégory Herpe, photographer, has been a relay in France for the Azerbaijani dictatorship since 2018, particularly concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, he continues to frequent the Azerbaijani embassy in France.
Grégory Herpe, born February 25, 1969 in Paris, is a French photographer. Before that, he was a playwright, radio host for NRJ and Fun Radio, and artistic director in the film industry. In 2009, he began working as a photojournalist, but also for communications agencies. Before that, and in parallel with his activities in support of Azerbaijani propaganda, he worked for the Sopa Images press agency in Hong Kong, photographing animals, celebrities and, paradoxically, mounting photographic projects relating to drag queens in Europe, whose situations of exclusion he questions (perhaps unaware that the political regime whose propaganda he defends has them arrested or even murdered).Grégory Herpe, photographer, has been a relay in France for the Azerbaijani dictatorship since 2018, notably concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, he continues to frequent the Azerbaijani embassy in France.
Since 2018-2019, he has been relaying Azerbaijani propaganda in France, accompanied by Mirvari Fataliyeva, a pillar of the Azerbaijani lobby in France, whom he describes as his friend. He also has links with other key members of the Azerbaijan lobby in France from summer 2019, including Guy Bricout, Brigitte Mancel, wife of Jean-François Mancel, and Mehri Guliyeva-Moghadam.
Grégory Herpe's role within the Azerbaijan lobby has been, through his profession as a photographer, to support the rhetoric of Ilham Aliyev's dictatorship about Artsakh. To this end, he took part in three trips to Azerbaijan, organized by the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan in June 2019, July 2021 and July 2023. In 2019, he travels alongside Mirvari Fataliyeva to Azerbaijan, where he meets up with the rest of the Association of Friends of Azerbaijan. He refers to this first visit as “the first steps of a great and beautiful project in collaboration with the Azerbaijani Cultural Center and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Paris”. In 2021, he travels to Azerbaijan with journalists, visiting the “territories liberated” from the Aliyev dictatorship. Finally, in 2023, he visits Lachin and Nakhchivan. Since 2018-2019, he has been relaying Azerbaijani propaganda in France, accompanied by Mirvari Fataliyeva, a pillar of the Azerbaijani lobby in France, whom he describes as his friend. He also has links with other key members of the Azerbaijan lobby in France from summer 2019, including Guy Bricout, Brigitte Mancel, wife of Jean-François Mancel, and Mehri Guliyeva-Moghadam.
Supervised for the most part by the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with the Diaspora, these trips will give rise to interviews given to Azerbaijani media such as CBC TV, Publika Magazine, Turizm TV and Report, extolling the aesthetics of the capital Baku, praising the “restoration work” in Lachin and elsewhere in Artsakh, and denouncing the “Armenian occupation”. Articles will also be published in collaboration with other pro-Azerbaijan lobbyists, such as Laurent Roumestand and Rachel Brooks.
Finally, one year after the end of the 44-Day War, in October-November 2021, Grégory Herpe is organizing the photo exhibition “Karabakh: Time for Peace” at the Cultural Center of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Paris. Through his work and words, Grégory Herpe is an active lobbyist for Azerbaijan in France.
In June 2023, Grégory Herpe continues to take part in the propaganda campaign orchestrated in Europe by Azerbaijan, producing the “Karabakh After the War” exhibition at the European Parliament, where representatives of the Aliyev regime will speak to once again exonerate the regime of its crimes and praise the Azerbaijani dictatorship.
Grégory Herpe regularly attends events organized by the French Embassy in Azerbaijan and, for example, was one of the spectators at the conference organized in July 2022 at the Azerbaijan Cultural Centre in Paris, on the alleged “destruction of Azerbaijani religious heritage” in Artsakh.
Azerbaijan uses all available means and relays to silence its wars and crimes.
