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Jack Sapoch

OSINT Investigator

Jack is an open source digital investigator who specializes in visual and 3D reconstruction. Much of his work has focused on border violence along the EU external border. In the past he has worked with Forensic Architecture, Business Insider, and the Border Violence Monitoring Network on investigations.

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Investigations

08.12.2024

Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande

More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.

22.10.2024

Border911

Ahead of the US election, the architect of Trump’s family separation policy – slated to return to office if Trump is re-elected – is using border disinformation to lay the groundwork for challenging the election results.

09.09.2024

The Kutum massacre

Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.

21.05.2024

Desert Dumps

Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.

23.03.2024

Sink the Boats

The UK government is paying France to ‘Stop the Boats’. Now first-time footage reveals French police have violently intercepted dinghies sailing for Britain, risking the lives of people on board

19.03.2024

Smoke and Lies

Visual investigation reconstructs the unseen events which saw 40 people suffocate to death in a migrant detention centre fire in Ciudad Juárez, disproving official account

11.12.2023

Frontex and the pirate ship

The EU’s border agency Frontex and the Maltese government are systematically sharing coordinates of refugee boats trying to escape Libya with a vessel operated by a militia linked to Russia, human trafficking, war crimes and smuggling.

'No name' graves in Bijeljina cemetery, Bosnia
01.12.2023

Europe’s Nameless Dead

As more people try to reach Western Europe through the Balkans, taking increasingly dangerous routes to evade border police, many are dying without a trace

02.06.2023

The Crotone Cover Up

Italy lied about its role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up

12.04.2023

France’s forgotten Afghan spies

Left Behind: A French-led intelligence cell in Afghanistan was kept secret for years – and now France has left its agents behind

18.01.2023

Detained below deck

Asylum seekers held in secret cells on ferries between Greece and Italy

03.12.2022

The Left Behind

Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul

23.03.2022

Ukraine Exodus

Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees

23.06.2020

Masked men

Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence