BLOODY FLIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA | M6 | 66 minutes

He shot his partner dead and then turned the gun on himself. For a week, Philippe Menière, a 60 year-old French doctor and his wife, 50 year-old Agnès Jardel, had the country’s police holding its breath and hit the headlines. This is the story of a descent into hell: after having lived a comfortable ex-patriot life on the Cape, the couple decide to isolate themselves on a farm in the middle of the bush, the arid countryside of South Africa. Both believed in “survivalist” theories, preparing themselves for the end of the world in 2012. They had amassed not only an impressive survival stock at their home, but also an arsenal of military weapons. Emaciated and cut off from society, they finally had problems with the neighbours. When the forces of law and order became involved, the two French opened fire, killing one policeman and wounding another, before fleeing into the bush. We revisit a descent into hell.