Bio

Anna Teixidor Colomer (Figueres) is a 3Cat journalist with a degree in Humanities and Journalism and a PhD in Social Communication (UPF). In recent years, she has focused on the jihadist movement and the attacks in August 2017. She has written several books based on her journalistic research: Combatents en nom d’Al·là (Ara, 2016), Sense por de morir (Pòrtic, 2020). The Netflix documentary series 800 metros was based on the latter and she was head of research for the production. She is a professor in the Master programme on Prevention of Radicalisation (UB) and co-author of various reports for the programme 30 minuts on TV3.

She has received many awards for her journalism, including Ondas (2023), Alexandre Planas (2016), Carles Rahola (2012) and Torrent-Tasis (2010), among others.

Project

She will be at Faberllull to write her next book. On New Year’s Eve 2012, two men in hoods armed with automatic weapons parked a vehicle outside the Paradise club in La Jonquera and warned of a bomb inside it. The car contained two butane tanks with TNT explosives, but the detonator failed.

This episode demonstrates the influence of organised crime on the La Jonquera border crossing. For years, this crossing has become a “prostitution fun park” on an industrial scale.

This non-fiction work aims to look at real stories from the border related to human trafficking for sexual purposes. The women exploited, often poor foreigners who don’t speak the local language, are extremely vulnerable and, as a result, treated as objects.