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About the podcast " The assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a Congolese thriller " :

On January 16, 2001, Congolese president Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the man who toppled Marshal Mobutu, is killed in his office in Kinshasa by one of his bodyguards. The assassin is shot dead as he runs out of the office.

85 people are convicted, some to death, others to heavy prison sentences. Twenty years after the facts, on Friday, January 8, 2021, the last 23 detainees convicted in this case are finally released. But were they really guilty?

Who are the real masterminds behind the assassination of the Congolese President? Why on the night of the assassination were eleven Lebanese nationals executed in turn in the Congolese capital?

In an original podcast signed by Arnaud Zajtman and Esdras Ndikumana, RFI offers a major investigation in four episodes with key testimonies and rare sound archives.

Production: Nicolas Benita and Simon Decreuze.

Music: Simon Decreuze.

With the participation of RFI's sound library.

The authors dedicate this podcast to their colleague Ghislaine Dupont, an RFI journalist assassinated alongside Claude Verlon in northern Mali in 2013, who greatly contributed to breaking the silence surrounding the 85 convicted in this criminal case.

This podcast contains excerpts from the films "Murder in Kinshasa. Who killed Laurent-Désiré Kabila?", a documentary by Marlène Rabaud and Arnaud Zajtman, produced by Entre Chien et Loup, ICTV Solferino, with the support of the FWB, RTBF, WIP and France Télévisions, as well as excerpts from "Farewell to Hell", by M. Rabaud and A. Zajtman, produced by Esprit libre Production, with Arte Reportage.