
Investigations

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Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.

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.

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

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

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.

Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally
The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration

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

Ethnic Profiling
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants

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

Inside Croatia’s Secret WhatsApp Group
How high-ranking Croatian officials presided over clandestine communications about border operations

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

Europe’s Black Sites
Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU

Shot for Seeking Asylum
First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU

Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies

“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey

Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks

Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast

Who died at Europe's border?
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border

Unmasking Europe's Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security

Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations

Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation

EU's Invisible Links to Wars
Maintenance deals perpetuate French involvement in war in Libya, Yemen

Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency

Recycling Lies
Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste

UK’s toothless arms control
Tracing British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine

Airbus maintaining Turkey's war
European giant aids Turkey with military airbridge to embargoed Libya

Invisible Workers
Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU's farms at height of pandemic

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

Cast Adrift
Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts

The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions

Deep Pushbacks From Greece
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea

Sudan's violent new rulers
Traveiling with perpetrators of Darfur atrocities illuminates self-styled saviors

Spain maintains war in Yemen
Iberia and Airbus secretly profit from Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen

Returns to Harm
Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine

Under the Scandinavian radar
Swedish and Danish companies profit from selling arms to UAE and Saudis

Shadow Population
Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population

Belgian Arms
Belgium sells air power to Saudis and ‘cop killer’ guns Mexico cartels

French arms, and deception
Secrets of France's arms sales give lie to strict control regime

Sudan's secret hit squads
Protesters from the streets and take them to secret torture prisons

Italian arms serving dictators
Tracing Italian weapons to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia

The Instagarchs
How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media