The Francis Leroy affair and that of the Saint-Aubert couple on France 2 Saturday December 14, 2024

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Francis Leroy affair, the full moon killer

At the turn of the 1980s, a masked and armed man sowed panic in the Bergerac region. He breaks into houses and sequesters their occupants. Over the years, his attacks become more and more violent, until he commits crimes. It will take years of investigation to confuse him thanks to the strange but brilliant intuition of a police officer.

A movie by Laurène Théveny.

Affair of the Saint-Aubert spouses, the masons of horror

They are a retired couple who met late in life and who come to live out their love story in the sun in the south of France. Still in the works of their new “house of happiness”, they suddenly disappear. Did they leave without telling anyone? Does their beautiful story actually hide tensions and has one of the two attacked the other? The investigation is carried out at full speed and will lead to the discovery of a crime of rare savagery.

A movie by Louis-Matthieu Nivôse.