“Like a Narcos spin-off!” This French documentary that is a hit in the world on NetLflix
The Air Cocaine affair, between Polar Narco, political satire and incredible escape, has been hallucinating the whole planet for a few days thanks to the Docu Netflix series “Is there a dealer on the plane?”
The crazy “Air Cocaine” affair returns to the heart of the news in recent days, thanks to Netflix!
The French Documentary Mini-series “Is there a dealer on the plane? “ (Or Cocaine air) panics the platform counters since its online on June 11.
Signed by Olivier Bouchara And Jérôme Pierrat – The authors of the already cult The kings of the scam (which retraced the scandal of fraud with carbon quotas before Money and blood)-The DOC in three episodes immediately raised in the world’s top 10 of the platform, in 2nd position of the non-English language programs, just behind K-Drama Mercy for none.
At the heart of the story, we therefore find the accused pilots, Pascal Fauret And Bruno Odostwo alumni of the French Air Force, arrested in 2013 on the Tarmac of Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, with Over 700 kilos of cocaine carefully distributed in 26 suitcases aboard a Falcon 50 Private-A jet belonging to the optician Alain Afflelou, rented that day without being aware of it. Despite the astronomical quantity of drugs, the two men still swear today do not know anything about the content.
But this is only the beginning of a story as incredible as it is sprawling. Two years after their arrest, the pilots escape from the Dominican Republic thanks to a clandestine operation orchestrated on the sly by three men: Aymeric ChaupradeMEP of RN, Malinowski Pierreparliamentary assistant, and Christophe Naudinaerial security expert. Their journey back to the metropolis, by boat, is a spy novel.
The documentary, which mixes explosive archives and exclusive interviews, unrolls a gallery of characters worthy of a Hollywood thriller: the Marseille judge Christine Saunier-Ruellaninflexible and methodical, which will do everything so that the pilots are stopped on their return to France; Dominican general Rosado Mateo And The Minister of Justice Dominguez Britoalways furious that the pilots – sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Dominican Republic – were acquitted in France in 2021 After a first sentence of 6 years. And then Nicolas Sarkozya time suspected of being linked to the case (!) speaks, just like Laurent Fiocconinicknamed El Magoformer chemist of the Pablo Escobar cartel.
The success of Cocaine air even exceeds that of Kings of the scam.
The directors entrust to Variety that it is the total dissonance between the facts and the profiles of the protagonists who fascinated them the directors: “Four French people arrested in Punta Cana with 700 kilos of coke in a private jet … it’s like a spin-off of Narcosexcept that none of the four has the profile. Two pilots, former heroes of the Air Force, Fathers of Family. And two passengers without a criminal record, not even for having stolen potatoes … “
Ten years after the facts, the “Air Cocaine” affair with its scent of state scandal, judicial satire and spy novel, still passionate as much.
