Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French

The investigations that caught our eye this year display the diversity that exists in the world of Francophone watchdog reporting.

Digital , video, and podcast investigations are now the norm, while print seems to be losing its dominance.

A year-long investigation by a team of more than 30 journalists uncovered arrest and deportation practices carried out by three North African countries.

French priest Abbé Pierre died in 2007 at the age of 94 .

Libération revealed that both the Catholic Church and one of his charities were aware of his predatory behavior for decades .

Burning Skies in Africa included more than a dozen media sites investigating companies involved in gas flaring around the world.

Dubai Unlocked , a collaboration with the US nonprofit C4ADS , DataCameroon and Inkyfada .

The report details how 26 such settlements were created in 2023 alone — despite it being forbidden under both international and Israeli law.

Sources focused additional coverage on a specific Israeli settler placed under US and European sanctions for his violence against Palestinians .

Alcyone Wemaëre graduated from Celsa and received the François Chalais Prize .