"Laëtitia", the series on the murder of a young woman in France

“Laëtitia”, series of France 2, produced by documentary maker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.

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Text by: Siegfried Forster Follow

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The series of the public channel France 2 is making the event this September.

“Laëtitia” tells the story of the murder of an 18-year-old young woman, Laëtitia Perrais, whose dismembered body was found near Pornic in 2011. 

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One night in January 2011, in Pornic, Loire-Atlantique, Laëtitia Perrais, a young waitress, was raped and murdered by a repeat offender.  

The circumstances of the crime, the arrest of the murderer, Tony Meilhon, then the long investigation work before finding the body of Laëtitia, dismembered and thrown in a pond not far from Nantes, had upset France.  

Adapted from an investigation by historian Ivan Jablonka, the series looks back on this tragedy.

Behind the camera, documentary filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the only one in France to ever receive an Oscar, in 2002 for 

, the story of a black American teenager wrongly accused of the murder of a tourist in Florida .  

Trace the investigation of the judicial police

With

, he turns to fiction to retrace the investigation of the judicial police and the trial, but also the course and the abused childhood of the young woman.

Far from being a simple news item, it sheds light on the springs of ordinary violence against women - five years after the word feminicide entered the dictionary.

To deliver the striking portrait of a young girl today on the threshold of breaking out and cut short in her vital impetus.  

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