Tuesday 12 November, M6 launches The Spies of Terrora miniseries in four episodes which retraces the investigation which made it possible to eliminate the sponsors of the Paris attacks. Is it worth a look? Our opinion.
Finally ! Ready for over a year (and available for several months on the M6+ platform), the miniseries The Spies of Terror arrives on the air from Tuesday November 12, 2024. Unlike the cinema film November with Jean Dujardin, which recounted the few days after the Paris attacks, the M6 series focuses on the in-depth investigation carried out by the French security and intelligence services, and their hunt for the sponsors of the November 13 attacks until the elimination of the mastermind of the operation, a year later in Syria.
The Spies of Terror : What does the M6 miniseries say?
“We’ve all missed something, otherwise we wouldn’t be here.” announced the director of the DGSI (General Directorate of Internal Security) the day after the Paris attacks to explain to his team and that of the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security), that they will have to join forces and work jointly. And this despite interests that are sometimes divergent but all legitimate. “80% of the series is real and what is invented is credible”, assures Mathieu Suc, the journalist and author of the eponymous book who collaborated in the writing of the series. The rest was imagined for the purposes of narration, synthesis and for the sake of confidentiality and security.
The Spies of Terror : what is the M6 miniseries worth? Our opinion
With modesty and without voyeurism, the series highlights the investment of ordinary men and women who do extraordinary work, often to the detriment of their personal lives, which are neglected or sacrificed. In addition to the self-sacrifice shown by these agents and the complexity of the relationships between services, the fiction also highlights the scale of their task and the difficulty of ensuring the reliability of a source. To embody this ultra-documented investigation in which all the pieces come together at the end, the series relies on four agents, perfectly played by Rachida Brakni, Fleur Geffrier (seen in Drops of God), Pierre Perrier and Vincent Elbaz. Without forgetting Rachid Guellaz (Valid), impeccable in the role of Minotaur, the code name of the DGSI informer and key character in the story. This little-known part of the post-November 13 period pays, despite the tragedy, a fine tribute to our security and intelligence services. Dense but captivating, the series brilliantly shows all the complexity of the fight against terrorism.
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