The series "Tropiques criminels" returns on Friday evening on France 2, with the launch of its second season.

The former Miss France and actress Sonia Rolland explains the same day in "Media Culture" what seduced her in this detective fiction unlike any other, which tells the story of French society from Martinique.

INTERVIEW

Mélissa Sainte-Rose is back.

Sonia Rolland resumes her role as a police officer with the start of season 2 of the

Tropiques criminels

series 

,

Friday evening at 9

 p.m.

on France 2. Guest of 

Culture Médias a

few hours before the broadcast of the first two episodes, the actress and Miss France 2000 tells why this detective series, which tells the story of French society from the point of view of Martinique, differs from the many other detective series broadcast on television.

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"Mélissa Sainte-Rose is a great cop, a police commander of the Crim ', who is transferred overnight to Martinique, because she is Creole", recalls Sonia Rolland about her character.

"Except that she does not know the customs and traditions of Martinique at all."

It is her teammate, played by Béatrice de La Boulaye, who guides her.

While sometimes having fun putting a spade in his wheels.

"We are talking about social issues, without judgment"

“The police captain with whom my character must team up is completely white, and that's what is interesting,” adds Sonia Rolland.

"In this series, we play with clichés and we play with clichés."

According to the actress, this series, because it does not take place in metropolitan France, tackles the questions that cross French society in a different way.

"We talk about issues related in particular to religion. Abortion is a taboo subject, for example. Transgender people, it is also a taboo subject. But we tackle them", observes the actress.

"We draw what we call the 'big picture' of a society. And that's what is interesting about these two main characters: we do not pass judgment, but we put things down and we let the spectator to make his opinion ", she analyzes.

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The duo of women who embody this fiction also distinguishes the detective series from its competitors.

"It's a first to have two heroines fliquettes," says Sonia Rolland.

"And then, it's a series both funny, where we conduct very serious investigations, and with social facts that we highlight."

The first two episodes of season 2 of the crime series 

Tropiques criminels

are broadcast Friday evening, from 9 p.m. on France 2. This new season, which has eight episodes, will be broadcast every Friday evening for four weeks.