For nearly two years, AP journalists Renata Brito and Felipe Dana assembled puzzle pieces from across three continents to uncover the story of a mysterious boat — and the people it carried from hope to death. Ask them about their investigation here:
We are Renata Brito and Felipe Dana, journalists for The Associated Press. For nearly two years, we assembled puzzle pieces from across three continents to uncover the story of a mysterious Mauritanian boat — and the people it carried from hope to death. Ask us anything.
In 2021, a small boat carrying the bodies of more than a dozen men drifted onto the horizon off the coast of Tobago. What is clear now, but was not then, is this: 135 days earlier, 43 people were believed to have left a port city in Africa nearly 3,000 miles away. They were trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, but never arrived. Instead, they ended up here. Europe’s crackdown on crossings in the Mediterranean Sea combined with the economic impacts of the pandemic, has led to tens of thousands of migrants risking their lives on a more dangerous migration route in the Atlantic.
Our investigation includes interviews with dozens of relatives and friends of the victims, officials and forensic experts, police documents, as well as documenting evidence and DNA testing. We found that 43 young men from Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and possibly other West African nations boarded the boat, and identified 33 of them by name.
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