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Jun 2024
22m 42s

Dumped in the middle of nowhere: Black m...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

A sprawling new investigation documents systemic police abuse against Black people migrating to Europe - all with the backing of a not-so-silent partner, the European Union.

In this episode: 

  • Beatriz Ramalho da Silva (@bearamalhosilva), Investigative journalist

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé, Duha Mossad, and Kevin Hurtin, in for Malika Bilal. This episode was edited by Alexandra Locke.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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