diff --git a/locales/en.json b/locales/en.json
index 8dac6e799..92864f348 100644
--- a/locales/en.json
+++ b/locales/en.json
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
     "invalid_url_format": "Invalid URL format",
     "ip6tables_unavailable": "You cannot play with ip6tables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it",
     "iptables_unavailable": "You cannot play with iptables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it",
+    "journal_does_exists": "There is not journal with the name '{journal}', use 'yunohost journal list to see all available journals'",
     "ldap_init_failed_to_create_admin": "LDAP initialization failed to create admin user",
     "ldap_initialized": "LDAP has been initialized",
     "license_undefined": "undefined",
diff --git a/src/yunohost/journals.py b/src/yunohost/journals.py
index d6a41bed5..0f1785697 100644
--- a/src/yunohost/journals.py
+++ b/src/yunohost/journals.py
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@
 
 import os
 import yaml
+import errno
 
 from datetime import datetime
 
+from moulinette import m18n
+from moulinette.core import MoulinetteError
 from moulinette.utils.log import getActionLogger
 
 JOURNALS_PATH = '/var/log/yunohost/journals/'
@@ -84,8 +87,8 @@ def journals_display(file_name):
     """
 
     if not os.path.exists(JOURNALS_PATH):
-        # TODO raise exception
-        return {}
+        raise MoulinetteError(errno.EINVAL,
+                              m18n.n('journal_does_exists', journal=file_name))
 
     for category in os.listdir(JOURNALS_PATH):
         for journal in filter(lambda x: x.endswith(".journal"), os.listdir(os.path.join(JOURNALS_PATH, category))):
@@ -112,8 +115,8 @@ def journals_display(file_name):
                     "logs": logs,
                 }
 
-    # TODO raise exception
-    return {}
+    raise MoulinetteError(errno.EINVAL,
+                          m18n.n('journal_does_exists', journal=file_name))
 
 
 class Journal(object):