“I infiltrated Fort Boyard.
Quite clearly the most epic adventure on my channel.
On YouTube, Max Von Croft, a fan of urbex (urban exploration of generally abandoned places) is delighted to have succeeded in "infiltrating" the famous Fort Boyard.
"My goal is to make you discover historical, cultural, natural and interesting places everywhere on earth during my travels", he explains, while being aware of the illegality of his approach on the Fort: "It [the video] may not stay online for very long.
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It all started in September 2021, traces the Sud Ouest newspaper.
In the middle of the night, a kayak docks at the foot of Fort Boyard.
A man climbs on a rope and climbs the wall, twenty meters high.
Max Von Croft has already achieved a feat: he illegally entered the most famous site in Charente-Maritime.
In his video of almost thirty minutes, he recounts this intrusion, then walks quietly in this place that rocked his childhood.
There are two days left.
“I'm not going to show you too many sets, because you risk being extremely disappointed, it's just cardboard, he quips, camera in hand.
There are technical installations and cables everywhere, it's ultra cheum (ugly), but you can't see it on TV at all.
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"Stones" in toc and equipped kitchen
Tour du Père Fouras, lifting platform, “well-equipped and rather large” kitchen, infirmary, costumes… He reveals behind the scenes of the Fort, its disappointments, the “impressive” places and several anecdotes.
But this secret filming didn't make the show's production company laugh.
She filed in May, following the release of the video.
Previously, the production had not noticed anything.
"What he did is ultra-dangerous, it's unconscious, annoys with the Parisian the production company, Adventure Line Productions.
He could have fallen while climbing the wall.
The phone does not pick up anywhere inside, if there had been a problem, no one would have known.
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Since then, the site's security systems have been reinforced.
This is the first time that ALP has become aware of an intrusion.
“But we will not reveal them.
With this complaint, our primary goal is to mark the occasion and above all to dissuade other people from having the same idea.
We want to avoid potential dramas in the future.
We don't want to find a corpse in the Fort.
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"I have not damaged or stolen anything"
Contacted by Le Parisien, Max Von Croft defends an action "without consequence", a project carefully prepared with people from the region who had already gone there illegally.
"I didn't deface or steal anything.
Every year, people go to the fort, ”says the young man, implying that the site is a sieve.
ALP confirms that nothing was forced, degraded or taken away.
"I'm not encouraging anyone to do what I did again.
The purpose was not to show how to enter the fort but what was inside.
“Summoned by the gendarmerie of Fouras at the beginning of the summer, the urban explorer does not regret anything.
“When someone climbs the Eiffel Tower, we don't blame them for encouraging people to do the same (…).
My goal wasn't to mess things up or piss off the production, but to make me love it, to put on a performance.
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He will be tried in mid-September.
“If I can have courteous contact with the production, I would be delighted”.