A Murder in Abidjan

Police investigations is a project for a documentary series based on following a police investigator confronted with a criminal affair in any one of the urban centers of the planet. A sort of portrait as described via a criminal investigation “diary”. For the series pilot, Mosco Boucault chose Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, a terrible violent city where armed attacks of every sort are a common daily occurrence and the police are put on a rude test. For three months, police Superintendent Kouassi was followed by a camera team as he investigated the murder of a police officer. They asked to see everything, he never objected. The camera team found themselves in a real nightmare, in which intimidation and torture are the only means used to discover the truth. The process was filmed to the very end, because this reality is not the exception but the daily routine. With this spectacle of torture, the real limit of the documentary is reached..