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L'affaire Chebeya, un crime d'Etat?

Original title: L'affaire Chebeya, un crime d'Etat?
Year: 2012
Running time: 100 min.
Country: Belgium
Director: Thierry Michel
Screenwriter: Thierry Michel
Cast: Documentary, Self: Annie Chebeya, Marie Josée Bazana, Daniel Mukalay, John Numbi
Cinematography: Thierry Michel
Producer: Pôle Image de Liège
Genre: Documentary | Africa. Crime. Politics
Synopsis: Floribert Chebeya was a human rights activist who had survived Mobutu Sese Seko's dictatorship and the subsequent civil war. On 2 June 2010, his body was found in a car near the capital, Kinshasa. The police quickly painted a scenario that made Chebeya the routine victim of a crime with sexual connotations. However, this version of the events broke down after an investigation in which the police were implicated. The government agreed to bring some of the highest police officials to justice in a military court, handing out stiff sentences to those found guilty and awarding compensation to the victims.

The film exposes the rough edges of Chebeya's character. He was a tenacious, insensitive and annoying man, with an inflated view of his role as defender of human rights, sometimes willing to make strange alliances to achieve his goals. The film covers more than just the police case, but provides a survey of life in a country that is between dictatorship and democracy, between opacity and justice. A recurring theme is the failure of the police chief, General John Numbi, to appear and offer an explanation

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