Modern Pirates of the African Coast

hey attack drilling platforms on powerful speedboats, abducting foreign nationals to later exchange for ransoms. In 2015, 73 of these attacks resulted in 62 abductions. They are the modern pirates. They kidnap transform kidnapping into business and see themselves as Robin Hood figures, targeting the oil companies that they accuse of plundering the country’s natural resources without giving anything back. In this documentary, we tracked the soldiers, sailors and pirates for several months, accompanying them on raids to reveal how they operate.