Already a potential variation on the small screen for the new investigative book The Ogres from the journalist Victor Castanetpublished on September 18 by Flammarion. The audiovisual group Mediawan has acquired the rights to adapt the book on the private daycare scandal in France. The fiction project will be carried out by Imagissime, and the documentary by Maximal Productions.
Danger in nursery
Awarded the Albert Londres Prize 2022 for his investigation into Orpea EHPADs in the Gravediggers (Fayard), Victor Castanet returns with a new investigation that causes a sensation.
In 2022, a little girl lost her life in a daycare in Lyon. The investigative journalist led the investigation for more than two years, notably collecting statements from 200 witnesses. It reveals behind the scenes of the first independent French nursery manager to demonstrate the latent danger for our children. After two weeks, the book recorded more than 13,700 sales according to GFK.
France 2 already announced on September 25, the start of filming of a TV film called The banks of the river from the first investigation by Victor Castanet, The Gravediggers. An investigation also recognized in bookstores with 170,500 copies sold to date according to GFK.
