this TV film with Cécile Bois, broadcast this evening on France 2, is based on a real, gripping news story

This Wednesday, November 20, 2024, it is International Children's Rights Day. It marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN in 1989 and organizes events to inform and raise awareness. To discuss the subject, France 2 chose a particular TV film around a striking news story, and it is one of France Télévisions' flagship actresses who plays this important role.

The associations are organizing demonstrations this November 23, 2024 against sexist and sexual violence, after those last weekend against infanticide, incest, child crime, abuse and all violence affecting the youngest. Among the actions undertaken, art is very important. And tonight, viewers will be able to discover a terrible story which should provoke reactions through an important film.

Reports: a TV film on children's rights

At 9:05 p.m., France 2 will broadcast Reportsa TV film directed by Éric Métayer, author and director who co-directed Tickles with his ex-partner, Andréa Bescond. The dancer, actress and director recounted her journey, from the sexual abuse suffered in her childhood by a family friend to her reconstruction.

This time, the feature film evokes the life of Laurence Brunet-Jambu, who wrote an eponymous book on the mistreatment suffered by her niece Karine and on the denunciations that she tried to make, in vain. The system even turned against her, with many calling her “the pain in the ass” or “the crazy one.” Reports was co-written by Éric Métayer, Catherine Ramberg and Clément Michel. In the casting, we find the star of the series Candice RenoirCécile Bois, but also Odile Vuillemin of Profiling in the role of the mother or Bruno Solo, playing a member of the ASE. The actor had also signed the preface to the eponymous book by Laurence Brunet-Jambu.

A shocking news item on mistreatment

The protagonist must fight against the indifference of Child Welfare and the justice system. Because Laurence Brunet-Jambu tried to alert the authorities for years and made repeated reports concerning her niece, suffering serious abuse. Failures in the child protection system are singled outas they were in the TV movie Nobody's Childinspired by the story of Lyes Louffok, placed in the ASE and mistreated in both a foster family and a home. Facts little known to the general public. A tribute also paid to this aunt who fought for her niece.

In the description of his book on the website of Pocket bookwe can read: “Karine was sucked into hell from the first minute of her existence. Daughter of a mother convicted of infanticide, the devil leaned over her cradle: blows, insults, deprivation, repeated death threats. Already, at the maternity ward, the medical staff had worried about her mother's psychological capacity, and her aunt, Laurence, was on alert, in vain.”. Then the summary continues: “Social services remain blind to the violence her niece endures and deaf to the numerous reports she makes. Karine was even the victim, from the age of five, of Roland Blaudy, a pedophile friend hosted by her parents. She can only count on her aunt to get her out of this hell.”.