"Exclusive investigation" on M6: six months of immersion in Afghanistan, as close as possible to the Taliban

Six months in Afghanistan and rare testimonies.

This Sunday evening, M 6 offers a new issue of the magazine “Enquête Exclusive”, on the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan, twenty years after September 11 (at 11:05 pm).

Immersed there for many weeks, journalists followed their arrival to power and experienced the capture of Kabul live.

The key is exceptional images.

The survey, produced by Slugnews, looks back on the history of this fundamentalist movement through the fate of a man: Mohamed Nabi Omari, a senior Taliban leader, ex-close to Mullah Omar. Journalist and co-director, Jean-Baptiste Renaud, is the first Westerner to interview him after months of negotiations. “It was while reading an article in the New York Times on the peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban that I spotted him. He was part of the

, these five fighters, imprisoned at Guantanamo after the American military intervention, ”he says. In 2014, they were released in exchange for an American soldier, prisoner of the Taliban. Omari is placed in residence in Qatar where he becomes a powerful spokesperson and diplomat for his armed group. "His fate sums up the history of Afghanistan over the past twenty years," said the reporter.

Surrounded in particular by translators, Sonia Ghezali, also co-director, followed Habib, a 28-year-old soldier from the Afghan national army, to an entrenched camp.

The young man fights against the advance of the Taliban.

In the capital, she also met Rahima, an examining magistrate and Sabira, a survivor of the attack on her school on May 9.

Their story captures a gruesome reality: women are the first victims of the Taliban.

One of the last journalists present on the spot, Sonia Ghezali also filmed the capture of Kabul and the demonstrations which are now shaking the capital.

Striking sequences which alone sum up the tragedy.

EDITOR'S RATING: 4.5 / 5

"Exclusive investigation: September 11, 20 years later, the return of the Taliban"