Witnesses never heard before speak out in this documentary, broadcast Sunday at 9:05 p.m. As well as experts from the US State Department, who paint the psychological portrait of the autocrat killed in 2011.
He was a student almost like the others, with little qualifications but very ambitious. In the photos, he reveals a serene, charismatic smile. After the 1969 coup d'état staged with his comrades and the four decades of abuse of power that followed, the old Mouammar Kadhafi displayed a look damaged by a dissolute life and cosmetic surgery. The face of a cruel man who lived in fear of being murdered.
The authors of this informative and ingeniously produced documentary sought to understand what this face hid. His deep motivation. They went to meet never-before-heard witnesses and questioned members of the US State Department, who made a specialty of psychological portraits of dictators. Their clean shirts and their phlegmatic tone contrast with the man whose intimate inner workings they are analyzing. They said he shared certain traits with other autocrats, from Putin to Kim Jong-un, who are still in power today. Gaddafi died in 2011, eight months after the start of the riots in Libya, lynched by a crowd.
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Deep narcissism
Dissidents, including a man who spent thirty-six years in prison, testify here to the violence of the torture and the arbitrariness of the arrests. Conversely, one of his former soldiers showers him with praise as if he still had to respond to his orders. “He was a leader!” »he swears. A leader responsible, among other things, for the death of 170 people, including 54 French people, in an attack in 1989. The film does not forget to trace his support for international terrorism. At the same time as his political coups which allowed him, after 2001, to become social again.
We remember his tent pitched at the Marigny hotel in 2007… Was he crazy? Worse, the Libyan colonel was ” rational “respond the American experts, who rely on somewhat obscure analysis software. To his deep narcissism, his lack of empathy and his need for control, Gaddafi combined a strategic sense which allowed him to remain in power for forty-two years. During which, a chapter insufficiently explored in this documentary, the leader also set up a sinister system of sexual slavery.
