Special Operations (2017)
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Stéphane Rybojad — Director
Episodes 6
Operation HK35
In 2010, in Nijrab, northeastern Afghanistan, Navy Special Forces men on a mission stumbled upon a veritable hornet's nest.
Read MoreOperation Quad Aces
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.
Read MoreOperation Cocody
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.
Read MoreOperation KRA
In 2000, the hunt for Momcilo Krajisnik, Radovan Karadzic's former right-hand man wanted for war crimes in Bosnia, mobilized 250 men of the Hubert commando.
Read MoreOperation Black Smith Hammer
On December 24, 2010, a large-scale operation was set up by the French army in cooperation with the Afghan army, with the aim of regaining control of the Alassai valley, a strategic crossing point held by the insurgents.
Read MoreOperation Chimera 31
In 2008, a special forces detachment from the 1st RPIMA was sent to Chad. Its mission: to conduct a reconnaissance of an area near Darfur for humanitarian purposes. But the commandos were caught in a deadly ambush.
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