France 2's investigative program is back on Thursday night with an evening on the theme of the police and its links with political power, three months after the death of Steve Maia Caniço in Nantes. Its presenter, Jacques Cardoze, was Wednesday's guest of "Culture Media" with Philippe Vandel to evoke this now established information meeting of the public channel.

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These are two of the most famous French television accessories: two bright red armchairs that are (almost) face, two seats witness a discussion of a few minutes. Since 2001, Complément d'enquête , launched and presented by Benoît Duquesne until his death in July 2014, is an important meeting of the information offer on France 2. As the new season starts on Thursday night, the journalist and presenter Jacques Cardoze, now in charge of the show, came to talk about Philippe Vandel's microphone, Wednesday morning, in Media Culture, on Europe 1, the first survey of the season 2019-10, dedicated to the functioning of the police.

Interviews designed to "get your mind back"

On Thursday, viewers will be offered an investigation into the Steve affair, a report on the "beef-carrots" (the General Inspectorate of the National Police, the "police of the police") and finally a portrait of the minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, who refused, precisely, to be questioned in one of the famous red armchairs.

These interviews outside "allow to be at most ready for what happens," says the journalist. Often shaken, sometimes frozen because of the cold, the guests provide a "breathing" on the show: "It's so strong that at some point you need to get your spirits back and have someone with whom you arises, "defends Jacques Cardoze, former Special Envoy , another show emblematic of the channel broadcast before Complément d'enquête . A locomotive, according to him: "I have interest in that Special Envoy be strong so that Complement of investigation is too."