Arte – Tuesday September 2 at 9 p.m. – Documentary
Icing, the documentary Putin poisonersBroadcast on Arte as part of a “Thema”, plunges us into the head of one of the most hated journalists sought by the Kremlin. “Killers are on my bars. My only hope is that this regime falls before the order is given to do me ”Confides Christo Grozev, the Bulgarian investigation journalist who, an investigator on the operations of the Russian secret services, is at the heart of this film. This confession concludes more than ninety minutes irrespirable minutes during which the camera follows it in intimacy and makes us share its permanent anxiety. In the United States where, for his security, he lives far from his family. In Europe where, sometimes, he goes to his own risk.
For the BellingCat online media, deemed “collective independent investigation”, the journalist revealed, from open sources and unlocked information on the web, the extent of the “Sprawling” Network of men and women in the world belonging to the Federal Security Service (FSB, one of the heirs of the KGB): some 300 unmasked spies and more than 5,000 names identified. Among them, those who poisoned Sergei Skripal, former double Russian and British intelligence agent in 2018.
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