Last Tuesday, November 12, M6 began broadcasting Terror Spies, a four-episode mini-series following the hunt by the French secret services for the sponsors of the November 13, 2015 attacks.
Among them are Lucy (Flore Geffrier) and Alexandre (Pierre Perrier), two counter-terrorism agents from DGSI, Malika (Rachida Brackney), an analyst from DGSE, as well as Vincent (Vincent Elbaz), head of DGSI’s territorial center. Lilly.
Did the agents presented in the series really exist?
Spies of Terror is adapted from the book of the same name by Mediapart journalist Mathieu Souk, a specialist in terrorism, who interviewed many agents of the French secret service to write his piece.
However, for the needs of the series, it was necessary to modify certain elements, in particular, the amalgamation of characters of several people. “There are certain characters that are more inspired than othersMate Suk explained at the press conference.
“Lucy and Alexander symbolize each servant. An intelligence component for Alexander and a forensic component for Lucy. We had to synthesize, because if we were a documentary, there would be 10-20 people in the department. This is fiction, we are forced to summarize.”
The need to protect real sources
Obviously, this is not the only limitation that the authors had to adapt to when writing the series. They had to lie to protect real agents and real sources.
“There are things we love to say that would be extraordinary. But we couldn’t because we have commitmentsMate Suk assured.
“There were things we couldn’t say, even though story-wise it was very effective and even more insane. But to say so may endanger this source. And there was no question of doing it“- added Frank Philippon, the screenwriter of Terror Spies.
“It was quite funny. Generally, reality isn’t constructed well enough to make fiction, and we complain about that, but here we find that we can’t say it for security reasons.
The goal was not to endanger anyone. The only red line was respect for temporality. We must not change the sequence of events. Because the order has an equal emotional logic for the people who live in it.”
Catch the final two episodes of Terror Spies this Tuesday 19 November from 9.10pm on M6. Episodes are now available on the M6+ platform.
Source: Allocine
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