FJA 2019
Category: Outstanding Investigative Reporting
Second Prize
MATHIAS DESTAL, GEOFFREY LIVOLSI, LORENZO TUGNOLI, MICHEL DESPRATX (France)
MADE IN FRANCE
April 15, 2019
By Disclose.ngo
The original publication is available via the following link: https://made-in-france.disclose.ngo/en/
An unprecedented leak of secret documents has revealed the massive use of French-made weapons in the ongoing civil war in Yemen. Following several months of investigation, Disclose reports on how these weapons have been used against the civilian population.
PART 1
YEMEN PAPERS
A leak of classified French defence ministry documents, revealed here, details the massive use of French-made weapons in the ongoing, four-year-old war in Yemen.
“Minister, I have a question which is going to annoy you.” The warning came during a January 20th 2019 interview on French national radio station France Inter with France’s defence minister Florence Parly.