African revolutionary poisoned in Switzerland. The killers? Still sipping espresso somewhere.
Felix Moumié was a rebel leader in Cameroon. He was poisoned by thallium in October, 1960 in Geneva. After nearly fifty years, no one has been charged with his death, though many suspect the French and Swiss governments played a part in his death.
Direction
Garbely's archival detective work cracks a half-century silence.
Writing
Narrative tension from documents that should've been shredded.
Director
Frank Garbely
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thallium was the CIA's poison of choice in the 1960s— odorless, slow, untraceable then. The same method killed other African nationalists.
Moumié's murder exemplifies 'Françafrique'—France's post-colonial shadow rule that continues destabilizing West Africa today.
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