The months-long investigation was produced by media outlets from Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK.
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00:00An investigation into the disappearance of more than 50,000 child migrants has won the
00:06European Parliament's 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.
00:13Lost in Europe, a project led by Dutch journalist Heysha Van Haren revealed that since 2021,
00:20on average nearly 47 migrant children arriving in Europe have gone missing per day.
00:27The research uncovered significant inconsistencies in documentation and reporting across 31 countries,
00:34including Austria, Germany and Italy, raising concerns that the actual number of missing
00:39children may be higher.
00:41They say this is just a tip of the iceberg that there were 51,433 children missing.
00:52The last time that we did this investigation, there were only 18,000 children missing back
00:58in 2021, so the number did increase.
01:03We don't know what happens if we do the investigation again in three years.
01:08The investigation found that many of these children fall victim to human trafficking
01:12or get caught up in people-smuggling gangs.
01:16Many children are also caught at the borders and they end up in prison for people-smuggling
01:22whilst they were smuggled themselves.
01:25So the EU war against people-smuggling works out the other way for minor children.
01:33A lot of minor children are in adult detention because of that.
01:39The Lost in Europe team received their award at a ceremony in Strasbourg.