On August 6, 1985, the famous host of the “Treasure Hunt” game show, Philippe de Dieulevult, disappeared along with six others during his Africa Raft adventure on the Zaire River. Official investigations result in drowning. But when and when disturbing elements question this version of the facts. DGSE agent Philippe de Dieulevult could have been the victim of a military error or even a state assassination. The details and details of this complex case…
“Anything is possible at this level”, proclaims a former Zairian minister interviewed in this film. The sentence sums it up very well: What happened on August 6, 1985 in Zaire (now Congo), at the level of the Inga waterfall on the Congo river? How did TV presenter and adventurer Philippe de Dieulevult and six of his friends from the Africa Raft expedition die? Was he drowned or executed? And if the latter, by whom? And why ? Directed by Yannick Saillet, the film revisits this tragic news that came to the fore when France, with the approval of the country’s authorities, sent its paratrooper detachment to the scene to find the bodies. In vain. The documentary examines various hypotheses, focusing on a mistake made by the soldiers from Zair who led Philippe and his friends to misfortune for the mercenaries responsible for blowing up a strategic dam… But there is no conclusive proof.
Dieulevult disappeared from the river on Thursday 18 May at 21:10 in France 2
FREDERICK RAPILLY
Source: Programme Television
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