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Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime comes to the Beeb

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Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime comes to the Beeb

The BBC has acquired the French crime thriller…

The BBC has acquired six-part series Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events.

In Northern France in the late 1980’s, women are being sexually assaulted along the same road by the Sambre river – with attacks taking place early mornings and in a similar style. The police fail to get to grips with the extent of these assaults or make a connection between the cases.

The justice system is overwhelmed by the accumulating cases. It will take 30 years to catch a man, who never stopped attacking women and is responsible for at least 54 cases of rape or sexual assault. Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime is a thriller following the progression of the investigation, its repercussions from the 80s through to 2018 and the beginning of the #metoo era.

Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition:

“Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime is an absorbing series about France’s most notorious sexual predator, and of how he was allowed to slip through the cracks of the judicial system for over 30 years. Each episode is told from the perspective of a different character involved in the case – a victim, the judge, the mayor, the scientist, the police officer and finally, the perpetrator, and is a gripping examination of the flaws of a society and its institutions”.

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker recounts the extraordinary legal case of a serial rapist who attacked women across three decades in the same location. The cast of the six-part series includes Alix Poisson, Clémence Poesy, Olivier Gourmet, Noémie Lvovsky, Jonathan Turnbull, Pauline Parigot and more.

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