Tomas Statius

@tomasstatius.bsky.social

Journaliste @lhreports.bsky.social | Migrations, surveillance, nucléaire | Auteur “Les morts de la Deûle” et “Toxique”

A mineral-rich region in DR Congo that was a major source of the uranium that helped produce US nuclear weapons during World War II has quietly been a source of uranium exports to China over the past two decades, a new investigation alleges. www.semafor.com/article/08/0...

DR Congo secretly exporting uranium to China - report

Despite a prohibition on commercial uranium export from the Central African country, “significant quantities” have gone to China.

semafor.com

Officiellement la RDC n’exporte pas d’uranium. Pourtant, après 2 ans d'enquête entre journalisme et recherche académique, nous dévoilons avec @financialtimes.com et @natureportfolio.nature.com, comment entre 2000 et 5000t de ce minerai ont été exportés vers la Chine🧵 www.ft.com/content/7781...

DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium

Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

ft.com

The DRC is the world's richest source of cobalt, critical for batteries. But its land contains another hidden mineral: Uranium. An investigation from FT and Lighthouse Reports finds the cobalt industry often ignores radioactive material in its exports — creating both health and proliferation risks.

DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium

Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

as.ft.com

DR Congo’s cobalt exports carry a hidden cargo: uranium. New visual investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how uranium-laced cobalt could enter covert supply chains hidden from regulators — raising proliferation concerns among DRC officials and nuclear experts. as.ft.com/r/7aa59487-e...

DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium

Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

as.ft.com

Lors du dernier match du LOSC, les identitaires flamands ont posté un tifo nationaliste "Rijsel is Vlams" ("Lille est flamande" en flamand), mais en faisant une faute (Vlams au lieu de Vlaams)

Photo de la bannière avec la faute en flamand

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"

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Tomas Statius@tomasstatius.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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 🧵

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...

French police ‘illegally ram migrant boats in overseas territory’

France has said it can’t intervene in the Channel but police routinely use deadly tactics to stop boats reaching the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, an investigation found

thetimes.com

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.

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

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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.”

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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...

‘We can live or die, but we are going to the UK’: the Calais refugees clinging desperately to a dream

Seventy-five people have died or gone missing trying to cross the Channel in small boats this year. What keeps them coming, despite the ever harsher attempts to deter them?

theguardian.com