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Christoph Koettl

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Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC. https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl

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Video: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.

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03.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel destroys Iranian refueling plane in Mashhad. 747 seems OK πŸ›°οΈπŸ“· via Planet Labs (Skysat and Planetscope comparison)
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16.06.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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"Bei JETZT wollen wir den Blick auf das Wesentliche schΓ€rfen", sagt Herausgeber @novak.at im Interview mit @diepressecom.bsky.social. Danke fΓΌr das GesprΓ€ch!

15.05.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aufdecker ChristoΒ Grozev stâßt zu neuem Medium β€žJetztβ€œ Das neue Onlinemedium von Radiomacher Florian Novak soll im September starten. Investigativjournalist Christo Grozev wird die Redaktion als Reporter und Ausbilder verstΓ€rken.

Haben hier sicher eh schon alle mitbekommen, aber das echt eine spannende Sache. Christo Grozev stâßt zu @jetzt.at, sollte es das Team bis 12.6. schaffen, ihr Mitgliederziel von 5000 zu erreichen. Auf die Geschichten von Grozev bin ich schon neugierig. www.diepresse.com/19755194

03.06.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Große VerstÀrkung für unsere Redaktion: Christo Grozev
@christogrozev.bsky.social – einer der bekanntesten Investigativjournalisten Europas – wird Reporter und Ausbilder bei JETZT.

03.06.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 235    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 20
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Dramatic satellite imagery of the glacier collapse in #Blatten, #Switzerland. A small lake started to form where the river that was running through the village is now blocked. πŸ›°οΈ πŸ“· via Maxar

29.05.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...

Our visual analysis shows the remnants of at least three American GBU-39 bombs at the site of the Yemeni migrant detention center that was bombed on Monday. Dozens of migrants died in the strike.
From @arijetalajka.bsky.social and me.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

03.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks on Gaza health facilities and treatment of detainees, hostages Hebrew version

A UN panel recently found that Israel follows a β€œconcerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination” go.nyt.net/Lp4S9D26TFKZ...

02.05.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The IDF, investigating itself, said the soldiers responded to an β€œimmediate and tangible threat.” All the men killed were unarmed, and the IDF directly targeted them with prolonged fire for at least six minutes.
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02.05.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A major difference to other attacks against healthcare in #Gaza: One of the medics filmed it. Two medics who were documenting with their phones were still alive when they stopped recording and the IDF closed in.The Israeli forces got so close that the soldiers could be heard shouting.

02.05.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...

On March 23, a group of first responders in #Gaza went searching for their missing colleagues. Once they found them, the IDF opened fire, slowly closed in, and killed most of them. Our newest investigation breaks down the attackβ€”an apparent war crimeβ€”minute by minute www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

02.05.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Our investigation naming & linking RSF commanders to war crimes in Sudan was nominated for the #NewsEmmys. πŸ™

Watch it here: youtu.be/H231YlstDKk

By @sanjanamv.bsky.social @ckoettl.bsky.social Natalie Reneau @declanwalsh.bsky.social Aaron Byrd with @cen4infores.bsky.social & Ayin Sudan.

01.05.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article) The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as β€œadvancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

05.04.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1474    πŸ” 887    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 137
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Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says Live drone footage allows Ukraine to observe what it views as war crimes unfold in real time, soldiers say.

There's been a spike in Russian forces executing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the past year – we tried to unpick the reasons why, with Kim Barker, Yurii Shyvala + many more www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

04.04.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A VERY close look at #China's new landing ships
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...

02.04.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Image shows a black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes

Image shows a black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes

Image gives a wider view of the village and the black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes. Image via Planet Labs.

Image gives a wider view of the village and the black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes. Image via Planet Labs.

New high res satellite imagery shows the extent of damage to a market in Toura, northern Darfur after the Sudanese Armed Forces bombed it on Monday. One witness counted four airstrikes.

Images via @planetlabs.bsky.social (thanks @ckoettl.bsky.social)

Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

26.03.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Sudan Military Bombing Kills Dozens in Attack on Market in Darfur (Gift Article) The bombing in a crowded market, which monitors called a likely war crime, was a grim reminder of the brutal toll caused by both sides in the two-year civil war.

Sudan military kills dozens in bombing of market in Darfur. The likely war crime is a grim reminder of the brutal toll caused by both sides in the two-year civil war.

Latest w/ @declanwalsh.bsky.social, Abdalrahman Altayeb, @ckoettl.bsky.social & Abubakr Abdelbagi www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

25.03.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Genocide Determination in Sudan and Imposing Accountability Measures - United States Department of State On April 15, 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a conflict of unmitigated brutality that has resulted in the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe, le...

Official announcement: US determines RSF is committing genocide in #Sudan www.state.gov/genocide-det...

07.01.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

US to impose sanctions on #Sudan RSF leader Hemeti. US found that RSF committed genocide, according to Reuters reuters.com/world/us-imp...

07.01.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tracking War Crimes in Sudan Inside a six-month Times investigation.

Atrocities on camera: We spent months analyzing videos & satellite images to link specific RSF commanders to likely international crimes in #Sudan. Reporting led by my newest colleague @sanjanamv.bsky.social
nyti.ms/4fAggBL

31.12.2024 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q

22.12.2024 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7

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