“lEFT TO BURN”
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

in collaboration with
forensic architecture

pc- Mustafa Nadri @refocusmedialabs

Commissioned by lawyers representing the #Moria6, Forensic Architecture and Forensis worked in collaboration with ReFOCUS Media Labs to map how the fireS spread and destroyed the infamous moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesvos.

Forensic architecture sourced and examined testimonies, official reports, high-resolution drone footage, and hundreds of videos and images taken by REFOCUS Journalists living in the camp to conduct a detailed spatio-temporal reconstruction of the spread of the fire through the camp.

Our analysis reveals significant inconsistencies in the testimony of the key witness, and casts further doubt as to the legitimacy of the evidence upon which the conviction of the young asylum seekers was based.

A Large part of the audio-visual material analysed consisted of footage shot by ReFOCUS Media Labs journalists, an organisation training refugees on Lesvos in filmmaking and reporting. once extracted, the times encoded in the metadata of that footage was cross-referenced with data with additional open-source imagery to create a video timeline of the night.

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