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Inside the RAID
  • 52'
  • Authors : Franck Debras, Manuel Laigre
  • 08-11-2015
  • Master : 2504

Inside the RAID | M6 | Enquête Exclusive

The RAID is celebrating 30 years of existence. Created in 1985, this elite division of the French national police force is responsible for the most delicate of missions: the fight against terrorism, hostage taking, transfer of dangerous prisoners, arresting bandits or taking down drug networks. All high-risk operations, some of which have made history. It was the RAID that led the rescue operation at the Hypercacher store last January, saving the lives of 26 people. They are the men who handled the Mohammed Merah affair. And it was they who, after a 4-year hunt, arrested Yvan Colonna in Corsica in 2003. In 1993 they rescued the children of the infant school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, who had been taken hostage by a man loaded with explosives. For six months, the magazine program Enquete Exclusive followed two units from the RAID on their daily operations, one in Paris, the other in Marseille. How do you join this elite corps? What are its rites of passage? How does it operate? Who are these highly trained men in black, equipped with the latest technology, whose sole obsession is to accomplish their missions without loss of life? Exceptionally, our reporters where allowed to accompany the men from the RAID on several especially delicate operations: a father holding his 5-year-old daughter hostage, a holdup in a shopping mall in Seine-Saint-Denis and even the breaking of a giant drug ring in Marseille.


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