Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
EL PAÍS and Lighthouse Reports were selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre.
Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre is a joint investigation by EL PAÍS and Lighthouse Reports. Find more information about the team members and journalists who directly contributed to the investigation below.
Klaas van Dijken
Klaas Van Dijken is a Director at lighthouse Reports and the Investigative lead for this project.
Maud Jullien
Maud Jullien is an investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, she co-led the investigation and produced the film.
Beatriz Ramalho da Silva
Beatriz Ramalho Da Silva is an Investigative Reporter at Lighthouse Reports, she carried out interviews with survivors and reporting on the ground in Melilla and Nador.
Jack Sapoch
Jack Sapoch is a visual investigator at Lighthouse Reports, he reconstructed a visual timeline of the events, created the 3D animated model of Barrio Chino border post and all of the animations.
Bashar Deeb
Bashar Deeb is a visual investigator at Lighthouse Reports, he helped find key footage and reconstructed a visual timeline of the events.
José Bautista
José Bautista is a Reporter at Der Spiegel and also works for Por Causa and the New York Times, he carried out interviews with Spanish officials and helped obtain key footage.
María Martín
María Martín is a Reporter covering migration at El País and carried out interviews with survivors and Spanish government officials.
Steffen Lüdke
Steffen Lüdke is a Reporter at Der Spiegel and carried out interviews with experts and European authorities.
Aziz Alnour
Aziz Alnour is an independent journalist from Sudan. He carried out interviews with Sudanese survivors.
Salaheddine Lemaizi
Salaheddine Lemaizi is the director of Enass and carried out video interviews with survivors and Moroccan authorities.
Arthur Weil-Rabaud
Arthur Weil-Rabaud is a visual investigator at Le Monde and he analyzed the deployment patterns and use of teargas by Spanish and Moroccan forces.
Alison Killing
Alison Killing is an architect and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, founder of Killing Architects, she helped reconstruct a visual timeline of the events.
Russian Asset Tracker
OCCRP and the Guardian were selected for the 2023 Shortlist with ‘Russian Asset Tracker’.
Russian Asset Tracker is a project led by OCCRP and the Guardian. Find more information about the team members and journalists who directly contributed to the investigation below.
Reporting, Writing, and Editing
Juliette Garside is deputy business editor of the Guardian and the Observer
Simon Goodley is an investigative reporter at the Guardian
Kalyeena Makortoff is the banking correspondent at the Guardian
Antonio Baquero is Europe editor at OCCRP
Lara Dihmis is a researcher/reporter at OCCRP
Alex Dziadosz is an editor at OCCRP
Jared Ferrie is an editor at OCCRP
Brian Fitzpatrick is an editor at OCCRP
Kevin Hall is North America editor at OCCRP
Ilya Lozovsky is a senior writer at OCCRP
Eli Moskowitz is an investigative journalist at OCCRP
Will Neal is a journalist
Stelios Orphanides is an investigative journalist
Miranda Patrucic is editor in chief of OCCRP
Olesya Shmagun is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Graham Stack is an editor at OCCRP
Tom Stocks is a senior investigator at OCCRP
Drew Sullivan is publisher of OCCRP
Julia Wallace is deputy editor in chief at OCCRP
Jonny Wrate is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Data
Jan Strozyk is chief data editor at OCCRP
Research
Lara Dihmis is a reporter/researcher at OCCRP
Misha Gagarin is a researcher at OCCRP
Karina Shedrofsky is head of research at OCCRP
Alina Tsogoeva is a researcher at OCCRP
Fact-Checking
Ivana Jeremić is a fact checker at OCCRP
Olena LaFoy is a fact checker at OCCRP
Bojana Pavlović is a fact checker at OCCRP
Dima Stoianov is a fact checker at OCCRP
Media and Research Partners
Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Bird.bg (Bulgaria), Delfi Estonia, Follow the Money (Netherlands), Forbes (USA), Frontstory.pl (Poland), The Guardian (UK), infoLibre (Spain), Inside Story (Greece), Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak (Slovakia), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), IrpiMedia (Italy), MANS (Montenegro), Miami Herald (USA), Le Monde (France), NDR (Germany), Oštro (Slovenia/Croatia), profil (Austria), Re:Baltica, Reporter.lu (Luxembourg), Siena.lt (Lithuania), SVT (Sweden), Tamedia (Switzerland), De Tijd (Belgium), Transparency International UK
Use of Leaked Data
We would like to thank the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for allowing us to draw on the Panama Papers, the Pandora Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the FinCEN Files for this research. Both the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers were leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and explored in collaborative projects led by ICIJ. The FinCEN Files were obtained by BuzzFeed News, which helped coordinate a project with ICIJ in 2020 that delved into the files. ICIJ obtained the Pandora Papers and shared them with media partners around the world.
Translation
Romina Colman is Latin America data editor at OCCRP
Ilia Donskikh is the Russian website managing editor at OCCRP
Nathan Jaccard is a Latin America editor at OCCRP
Design and Graphics
James O’Brien is head of web at OCCRP
Edin Pašović is a design editor at OCCRP
Interactive and Web
Mark Nightingale is head of journalism products at OCCRP