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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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July 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Israel destroys Iranian refueling plane in Mashhad. 747 seems OK 🛰️📷 via Planet Labs (Skysat and Planetscope comparison)
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June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"Bei JETZT wollen wir den Blick auf das Wesentliche schärfen", sagt Herausgeber @novak.at im Interview mit @diepressecom.bsky.social. Danke für das Gespräch!
May 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Haben hier sicher eh schon alle mitbekommen, aber das echt eine spannende Sache. Christo Grozev stößt 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
Aufdecker Christo Grozev stößt zu neuem Medium „Jetzt“
Das neue Onlinemedium von Radiomacher Florian Novak soll im September starten. Investigativjournalist Christo Grozev wird die Redaktion als Reporter und Ausbilder verstärken.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Große Verstärkung für unsere Redaktion: Christo Grozev
@christogrozev.bsky.social – einer der bekanntesten Investigativjournalisten Europas – wird Reporter und Ausbilder bei JETZT.
June 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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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. 🛰️ 📷 via Maxar
May 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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.
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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...
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May 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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 attack—an apparent war crime—minute by minute www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Our investigation naming & linking RSF commanders to war crimes in Sudan was nominated for the #NewsEmmys. 🙏

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.
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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...
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 “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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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...
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.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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A VERY close look at #China's new landing ships
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April 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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...
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.
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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...
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.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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US to impose sanctions on #Sudan RSF leader Hemeti. US found that RSF committed genocide, according to Reuters reuters.com/world/us-imp...
January 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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
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Tracking War Crimes in Sudan
Inside a six-month Times investigation.
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December 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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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
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.
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December 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM