Alexandra Jousset: “With ‘Sources’, we want to show the public how journalists investigate”

Like investigators and police officers, Alexandra Jousset’s team sifts through documents and, thanks to the data available on the internet, arrives by cross-checking at valuable information, while showing on the image how the investigation is progressing.

In the first part Prigozhin’s files, the magazine goes behind the scenes of the Wagner group and demonstrates how its oligarch and financier Yevgueni Prigojine acts in three areas: both the Wagner group, a security police responsible for identifying and punishing those who would like to defect, and disinformation. 2,500 hacked documents were first authenticated by a consortium of journalists and then analyzed. The magazine shows in particular how public opinion is manipulated in the Central African Republic through the purchase of people to demonstrate and newspapers to report on them.

This first part of Sources is available on the Arte platform and on the Arte YouTube channel.