PRODUCTION: Disclose
COUNTRY: France
YEAR: 2021
LENGTH: 10′
MADE BY: Mathias Destal, Arianne Lavrilleux, Geoffrey Livolsi, Jean-Pierre Canet, Emile Costard, Antoine Schirer

French investigative journalism NGO Disclose reveals how France provided military and political support to the Al-Sisi regime, to the point of being complicit in state crimes. The allegations are based on the testimony of a key source and the disclosure of hundreds of confidential documents circulated at the highest levels of the French state, known as the Egypt Papers.

These revelations have undermined Egypt's reputation as a strategic partner against terrorism. The regime now appears unreliable and dishonest with its interlocutors and unwilling to fight terrorism. After the publication of the report, the Disclose website was added to the hundreds of sites already blocked by Egypt.