- The French Africa or the control system of the former French colonies.Françafrique is an inspiring documentary on the networks that will exist alongside formal diplomatic relations in order to monitor African countries after independence.Economic, political, financial issues ... Everything is mingled. Released Thursday, December 9 last on France 2, we give you the opportunity to review this first part of the reason of stateDirected by Patrick Benquet. Historical consultant Antoine Glaser. Patrick Benquet scenario.
Produced by Compagnie des Phares et Beacons with the participation of France Televisions.
50 years ago, in 1960, 14 French colonies in black Africa became independent. But independence does not mean freedom: General de Gaulle left Jacques Foccart the establishment of a system designed to hold, by all means, legal and illegal control of our former colonies whose raw materials are vital for France. This system will be called Françafrique.
For over a year, Patrick Benquet investigated with the invaluable assistance of Antoine Glaser, unanimously recognized specialist in this field. It shows that through this film had known the successive presidencies of France, right and left, the global revolution driven by the fall of the Berlin Wall and globalization, there is a surprising consistency in the French policy towards its former colonies. All major African events which the French kept the memory, Biafra, diamonds Giscard, the action of the mercenary Bob Denard, the repeated coups, political assassinations, the Elf affair and his suitcases of banknotes the dismissal of Jean-Marie Bockel ... were connected by an inexorable logic: the implementation of a policy which obscures the main motivation was to supply France's energy, especially oil.
Françafrique reveals a secret world where, outside of any governmental or parliamentary control, all shots are allowed to stay in power of African Heads of State devoted to France. A world where huge sums of money illegally irrigating networks of personal enrichment and funding of political parties. The film gives voice to the people behind the scenes, leaders of the French secret service thugs in the service of the Republic, fighters of the black continent and the French historical actors who had never cast: "Gentlemen Africa" Elysium, ambassadors, Minister for Cooperation, etc..
With, in order of appearance: Maurice Delaunay Has the Colonial, the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-mer, Maurice Delaunay was the prototype of these servants of the state who have managed without the African empire state soul, justifying the illegal operations on behalf of "reason of state". Being defined himself as a man of Foccart, he was responsible for the great repression of separatists in Cameroon in the late 50s. Ambassador to Gabon on two occasions, he organized the rise to power of Omar Bongo. Libreville since he managed the French intervention in Biafra. He directed and protected the mercenary Bob Denard especially for destabilization operations in Benin. He witnessed the illegal movement of funds between Africa and French officials. Maurice Robert As head of the Africa he was the henchman of Jacques Foccart in the SDECE, the French secret service.
The intervention of France in Biafra in the destabilization of Guinea or Benin through the setting of Bongo in power, he was the executioner in chief of the secret policy of France in Africa. Landed French secret service, he was immediately hired by the intelligence services at Elf and will eventually be appointed ambassador to Gabon at the express request of Omar Bongo before finishing his career at Elf again.
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Andrew Lewin Ambassador of France in Guinea from 1975 to 1979 he was the memory of the violent rupture between General de Gaulle and Ahmed Sekou Toure and attempts to destabilize that country by the French secret service. Bob Maloubier Former head of Action of the French secret service is he who organized at the request of Jacques Foccart, the presidential guard of the Gabonese president Leon M'Ba, the victim of an attempted coup. He was then hired by the company Elf in Nigeria.
Jacques Jacques Pigot Pigot was part of those officials that France appointed to oversee the new African presidents. He spent 50 years in the direct vicinity of the first Gabonese President Leon Mba and Omar Bongo. Jacques Thiebaut pilot, adventurer in Gabon, he participated in the resupply of weapons of war against Biafra in Nigeria, under the command of Maurice Delaunay. Martin Kirsch It was the "Mr. Africa" by Valery Giscard d'Estaing from 1980 to 1981. Symbol of the continuity of African politics, his appointment was recommended by Jacques Foccart.
Albin Chalandon CEO of Elf from 1977 to 1983, he comforted the role of Gabon as a leading supplier of oil to France and undertook successful negotiations with Congo Brazzaville, however, led by pro-Communist Denis Sassou Nguesso. He generously distributed the envelopes to finance election campaigns of all major political parties of both right and left. Jacques Halls Head of the French secret service in Zaire and Gabon, he had to deal with the French decision to overthrow President Bokassa.Based in Libreville, he was a privileged witness of electoral manipulation and corrupt financial extravagance of President Bongo. Jean-Pierre Cot Twenty-two years before Jean-Marie Bockel, Jean-Pierre Cot will experience the same misfortune. Appointed in May 1981 by Cooperation Minister Francois Mitterrand, he advocated transparency in relations with Africa and the end of secret networks. He will resign after 20 months and replaced by Christian Nucci.
Pierre Marion Director of the DGSE from 1981 to 1982, he failed in his attempt to clean the French secret service of the influence of networks Foccart and men of Elf.Disavowed by President Mitterrand, who appointed him, he resigned. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand's "Mr. Africa" by his father at the Elysee Palace from 1986 to 1992, he inherited the nickname "Papa told me" among African leaders.
Loik Le Floch-Prigent CEO of Elf, 28 June 1989 to August 3, 1993, he was willing instrument of President Francois Mitterrand who continued the practice of secret financing of political parties by the oil money secret. In the case of the Elf scandal, it was the collateral victim of the attempted balladurienne making of presidential power.In the name of reason of state, he justified the occult practices of the oil company and in particular the financing Elf civil wars in Congo Brazzaville and Angola as part of the oil strategy of his company. Eva Joly, the investigating judge of the Elf affair, she dismantled the mechanisms of corruption and secret financing generated by oil money.
Robert Bourgi Business lawyer, personal advisor to several presidents of the continent, he worked in the shadow of Franco-African first for Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin and Nicolas Sarkozy for he introduced him to African networks. Being defined himself as the spiritual son of Jacques Foccart, it is now considered the most influential man of French-African networks. Michel de Bonnecorse Ambassador to several African countries, he was the adviser for African Affairs Jacques Chirac from 2002 to 2007. Slayer networks he witnessed their rise to power after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Dominique Pin Deputy Ambassador of France in Cote d'Ivoire from 2002 to 2005, he was then director of Areva in Niger. Francois Stifani It is the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge French national who performed the inauguration of Ali Bongo, the son of Omar Bongo, as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon. And archives, appear in succession: De Gaulle, Pierre Guillaumat, Jacques Foccart, Ahmed Sekou Toure, Pierre Mesmer, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Félix Mounier, William Bechtel, Leon Mba, Omar Bongo, Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, Valery Giscard d 'Estaing, Rene Journiac, Kerekou, Bob Denard, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, David Dacko, François Mitterrand, Guy Penne, Pascal Lissouba, Eduardo Dos Santos, Edouard Balladur, Philippe Jaffre, Roland Dumas, Bernard Kouchner, Laurent Gbagbo, Vincent Bollore, Francis Bouygues, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Marie Bockel, Alain Joyandet, Tandja and Ali Bongo.
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