🧵Our Balkan Insight investigation with Maria Cheresheva, featured in Le Monde & DW Български, brings new evidence that Frontex is implicated in “illegal practices” and that its officers are being silenced from reporting the crimes they witness. balkaninsight.com/2024/09/06/eu-…

Luděk Stavinoha has presented the findings of our latest investigation on the violence at the Bulgarian #borders and the role of Frontex in those “illegal practices” as more than a mere observer. More in the thread. Balkan Insight Le Monde DW Български thank you.

BIRN’s findings raise fresh questions for Hans Leijtens, who took over as Frontex executive director in March last year with a vow that the agency would never again turn a blind eye to rights violations on the EU’s borders. Read our investigation: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/06/eu-…

New evidence obtained by Balkan Insight shows how new Frontex's boss Hans Leijtens promise to bring the agency in line with EU law is facing acute challenges. Violence and abuse reign at the borders while Frontex officers are intimidated into silence. balkaninsight.com/2024/09/06/eu-…

Des documents internes de Frontex révèlent les pressions exercées par les gardes-frontières bulgares sur leurs homologues européens pour ne pas signaler des violences et des expulsions illégales de migrants . Notre enquête avec Maria Cheresheva: lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/…

En Bulgarie, les gardes-frontières de Frontex contraints de fermer les yeux face aux abus (par Maria Cheresheva et Luděk Stavinoha) lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/…

Few investigations kept me awake at night like this one. These videos we obtained show civilians in Sudan being executed by militias. When I realised I was looking at the bodies of 5 brothers, I couldn’t let it go & wanted to find out who’d done this & why.