À la suite de nos révélations sur les interceptions violentes de #kwassa au large de #Mayotte, le président de l'union des #Comores, Azali Assoumani, a demandé à la France "d'arrêter ces opérations" lors de l'assemblée générale de #ONU à New York la1ere.franceinfo.fr/mayotte/les-...

Le ministère des affaires étrangères des Comores réagit à notre enquête sur les interceptions violentes de #kwassas à #Mayotte Il condamne une "atteinte grave aux obligations internationales de la France" et appelle à des sanctions "contre les auteurs de cette barbarie"

For years, the French government had maintained that intercepting boats at sea was illegal and dangerous. But in the Indian Ocean, they've been doing just that, costing dozens of lives. If these tactics were used in the Channel, it would risk hundreds of lives. www.thetimes.com/article/46f9...

Pendant un an, avec @lemonde.fr @spiegel.de @thetimes.com @artefr.bsky.social, nous avons enquêté à Mayotte sur la manière dont la police arrête les #kwassas, ces petits bateaux qui tentent de rejoindre l’île Nous révélons l'utilisation de tactiques dont les conséquences peuvent être mortelles 🧵

REVEALED: French police have caused dozens of drownings by violently intercepting small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte. Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel, to try to stop people from reaching the UK.

For years Frontex gathered data and automatically passed it unlawfully to Europol. With @stavinoha.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we investigated how this dragnet scooped up thousands of people, migrants and EU activists. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

New by @oliviasolon.bsky.social ( @bloomberg.com) and @tomasstatius.bsky.social ( @lighthousereports.com): a EU border control system - with biometric info on 1.7 million people - has extremely serious cybersecurity issues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... This is why these stories are important:

An information-sharing system used by EU border forces to flag illegal immigrants and suspected criminals in real time was rife with software & security vulnerabilities, according to confidential documents seen by @bloomberg.com and @lighthousereports.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Le fichier de contrôle aux frontières des pays de la zone Schengen (SIS) est truffé de failles de sécu qui le rendent vulnérables selon des docs obtenus par @bloomberg.com @lighthousereports.com Il contient les données biométriques de 1,7 millions de personnes www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pour discréditer #Toxique, notre enquête sur les essais nucléaires avec @sebphilippe.bsky.social, le CEA n'a pas lésiné sur les moyens. Sur @disclosengo.bsky.social @lemonde.fr @theguardian.com, nous révélons les coulisses d'un opé d'influence à près de 90 000 € www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Détail dramatique rapporté à l’AFP à propos du cyclone #Chido à #Mayotte : de nombreuses personnes sans papiers, peuplant les bidonvilles, n’auraient pas rejoints les abris ouverts par la préfecture de peur qu’il s’agisse d’une ruse pour les expulser

Over a year, we collected & analyzed data on drowning deaths along Texas' stretch of the US/Mexico border on the Rio Grande Yesterday our collaborative investigation went out on the front covers of @washingtonpost.com + @eluniversalmx.bsky.social @lhreports.bsky.social

Entre 2017 et 2023, 1000+ personnes se sont noyées au Texas en essayant de rejoindre les #US depuis le Mexique @lhreports.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com & @eluniversalmx.bsky.social démontrent le lien entre ces morts et les tactiques agressives de la police www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

It’s 5yrs and waiting since the EU boasted that a €142mn “smart borders” system would see it biometrically track people in/out of the bloc. Atos, a French IT firm cosy with Brussels, was supposed to do the bulk of the job. Documents obtained by @lhreports.bsky.social @bloomberg.com reveal a fiasco

UK exports pesticides that it won't use at home. Nice investigation by @laurentgaberell.bsky.social for @publiceye.ch with @unearthednews.bsky.social. For more, check out the stories by @tomasstatius.bsky.social & co on the EU's pesticide problem www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Worth your time this morning, from @oliviasolon.bsky.social & @tomasstatius.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

En #RDC, la parenthèse #Semlex est définitivement refermée L'entreprise, qui imprimait les passeports congolais depuis 2015, poursuivie pour corruption par la justice belge depuis 2017, a perdu son lucratif marché actualite.cd/2024/12/03/r...

The Entry-Exit System has been in the making for over 15 years, with a cost so far to the hundreds of millions. This massive scoop by @tomasstatius.bsky.social of @lhreports.bsky.social and Bloomberg prove that the project's benefit is until this day a big 0.

En 2019, l’UE a décidé d’investir 100+ millions d’euros dans un nouveau système biométrique de contrôle aux frontières, EES. 5 ans plus tard, le système ne fonctionne pas et son lancement a encore une fois été repoussé. La faute en grande partie à une entreprise : Atos 🧶

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

A good human-centred piece reminding us that the UK's strategy of constantly increasing security/surveillance/violence at the France/UK border is not reducing small boat crossings or discouraging people from making the journey, but IS leading to many more deaths www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Migrants disparus dans la Manche : des enquêtes négligées ? www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Dimanche avec @gabriellehecht.bsky.social #NuclearStudies

Honored to be speaking at the @outriderfdn.bsky.social nuclear summit in Washington DC with such great minds as @meckdevil.bsky.social and Victoria Samson (and many others). We'll talk about stories that should be told (and are not). Rest of the program is here : outrider.org/conference/2...

The Taliban has demolished over 1.5 million sqm in Kabul, displacing 1000s & hitting marginalised communities hardest. @lhreports.bsky.social new investigation w/Afghan Witness, Centre 4 Information Resilience,Zan Times,Etilaat Roz & @theguardian.com reveals www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Daily life in Kinshasa's tallest residential tower, the "Presidential Galeries", built in the 1970s by Mobutu with luxurious marble floors and escalators. My film will be screened at the beautiful Dakar biennale on Nov 30.

Money intended to be used to fight #BokoHaram was siphoned by Nigerian officials to buy property in the US, incl a mansion in DC. Impressive and necessary work by @pplaaf.bsky.social @johndellosso.bsky.social, published in @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Hello Bluesky friends! We'll be posting here more often going forward In the meantime, sharing a starter pack of current/former staff and contributors to Lighthouse Reports investigations. Will update as we go! go.bsky.app/J6a68Yg