This Monday, November 13, France 2 began broadcasting the mini-series Sambre, directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, adapted from the horrific news that shocked the north of France.
Loosely adapted from the work of Alyssa Gero, who also co-wrote the feature screenplay with Mark Herpus, Sambre tries to understand in 6 episodes the reasons for the legal fiasco that allowed Dino Scala to rape and sexually assault dozens of women over more than 30 years. .
We are in the late 80s in the north of France. Women are raped early in the morning, always in the same way, on the same road, by the river Sambre. The police are not evaluating these attacks and making no connection between them.
The justice system is overloaded with cases. It will take thirty years to catch a man who never stops attacking women and who is responsible for at least 54 rapes or sexual assaults.
A record for France Télévisions
When it was released, Sambre managed to attract an average of 3.46 million viewers for its first two episodes, or 18.8% of the entire public and 5.6% of women under the age of 50 who were responsible for purchasing (FRDA-50).
A perfectly respectable score, which allowed the series to reach the second position in the audience that night, behind M6.
While France 2 will offer two new episodes of Sambre every week on its channel, the channel has also chosen to put the mini-series online in its entirety and for free on its france.tv platform. And you have to believe he had a beautiful nose.
In a tweet published on November 15, two days after the first episode aired, france.tv announced that Sambre had achieved the best start in the history of the platform, with more than 1 million views.
Good news for this fiction by Alix Poisson, which chronicles thirty years of failure to care for rape victims, while showing the evolution of a justice system that has struggled since the 1980s to stop gender-based and sexual violence.
Find two new episodes of Sambre this Monday, November 20 on France 2. The mini-series is fully available on the France.tv platform.
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