It is an exceptional documentary * on a stalking that is not less: Thursday evening, France 2 broadcast a report of the journalist Sofia Amara and his cameraman Christophe Barreyre for Special Envoy in the footsteps of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , head of the Islamic State announced dead by Donald Trump himself on October 27. "I've been tracking him for several years," says the journalist, who met "his wife, relatives, people who knew him as a child, then a teenager and a jihadist.
The "tricks" of a secret cell
For this documentary, Sofia Amara and Christophe Barreyre had exceptional access to the Falcons, the elite soldiers of Iraqi intelligence that they could follow for several weeks. "This is a secret cell, they are not intended to work with the media," says the journalist, author of Baghdadi, caliph of terror (Stock editions, 2018).
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In pursuit of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his lieutenants for nine years, "they have agreed to be with us on mission and to reveal some of their work, the way they track down Daesh. use completely unpredictable tricks and ploys to deal with this terrorist movement, these cells and these terrorist actions, "she promises.
* Al Baghdadi, the secrets of a stalking, in Special Envoy on France 2 from 21h10