Special Operations Season 1

Season 1

Thanks to unpublished testimonies and quality reconstructions, this series relates for the first time the most daring and delicate secret operations that the special forces have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.

Air date: 2017-09-10

Episodes: 3

Episodes

E1: Operation HK35

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

Air date: 2017-09-10

E2: Operation 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.

Air date: 2017-09-17

E3: Operation 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.

Air date: 2017-09-24