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Maud Jullien

Investigations Editor

Maud was a news correspondent in Senegal and the DRC for seven years before moving to France to become a free-lance documentary film-maker and a news editor-in-chief. She has worked for the BBC, Arte, France 24, TV5 Monde and started collaborating with Lighthouse Reports in 2019, investigating European arms exports. She works in both English and French and has previously written and directed documentaries for the BBC and TV5 Monde.

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The Visa Empire: Borders as a Business
28.05.2026

The Visa Empire: Borders as a Business

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel
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Caught on camera : French police cause capsize
28.04.2026

Caught on camera : French police cause capsize

Exclusive footage sheds new light on dangerous tactics used by French border police in the overseas territory of Mayotte to stop kwassas, small boats carrying immigrants from nearby Comoros
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“They hit us and watched us drown”
16.09.2025

“They hit us and watched us drown”

French police cause dozens of drownings with violent tactics against small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte. Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel.
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The Kutum massacre
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Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.
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Desert Dumps
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.
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Brain waste
18.04.2024

Brain waste

Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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Frontex and the pirate ship
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.
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Left for Dead
23.09.2023

Left for Dead

Left Behind: Afghans who worked for Dutch-funded NGOs were told they’d be evacuated to safety, but a shift in policy left them to face the wrath of the Taliban – with consequences that have proven deadly
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Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally
20.07.2023

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
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The Crotone Cover Up
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
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Ukraine Exodus
23.03.2022

Ukraine Exodus

Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees
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