← Special Operations

Season 1

3 episodes · 2017

Thanks to unpublished testimonies and quality reconstructions, this series relates for the first time the most daring and delicate secret operations that the special forces have carried out in recent years. From their preparation at the operational center to their execution in the field, three missions are detailed step by step.

  1. 1Operation HK35

    10 Sep 2017 · 1 hr 10 min

    In 2010, in Nijrab, northeastern Afghanistan, Navy Special Forces men on a mission stumbled upon a veritable hornet's nest.

  2. 2Operation Quad Aces

    17 Sep 2017 · 1 hr 11 min

    A few months after the liberation of the Ponant hostages, a retired French couple convoying a sailboat to Europe is taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

  3. 3Operation Cocodyfinale

    24 Sep 2017 · 1 hr 6 min

    On April 6, 2011, the men of the 1st Rpima and the 4th Rhfs, supported by the pilots of the 1st Rhc, carried out an extraordinarily daring operation to free the Japanese ambassador, who was being held hostage in his residence in Cocody by militiamen in the pay of Laurent Gbagbo.