TV host and actor Jean-Luc Reichmann is back in the "Léo Matteï" series, season 8 of which begins Thursday evening on TF1.

Guest of "Culture Médias" the same day, the TV man explains how this season on child protection has focused on topical issues.

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The protector of children is back on TF1.

The character of Léo Matteï of the miners' brigade returns Thursday evening on TF1, with the launch of season 8 of the series.

The one who embodies it on screen, TV host and actor Jean-Luc Reichmann, is the guest on the same day of the 

Culture Médias program

.

He explains at the microphone of Philippe Vandel how this new season was inspired by the news on the side of the protection of minors.

"There's a lot going on in sport," he explains.

“Tonight it will be swimming. We saw what happened in the world of judo. We all read what happened in the world of figure skating. of that. "

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"Many children do not dare to speak"

For the sake of realism, the teams of 

Léo Matteï, the minors' brigade,

 shot in the places of youth sports activities.

"We went to Marseille, to the Cercle des nageurs", specifies Jean-Luc Reichmann.

"The idea is to be as close as possible to reality and as close as possible to current events."

All the episodes of this eighth season, whether they take place in sports or elsewhere, will deal with the issue of hold.

Jean-Luc Reichmann hopes that this season will be able to move the lines.

"There are many children who do not dare to speak or who cannot speak", he regrets.

"I think it's time to let the children speak. It's hard to get a child to speak."

Treating, in fiction, these subjects of mental hold, abuse and pedocriminality at a high-air time, he hopes, "can allow children to express themselves in the playgrounds or at the miners' brigade ".

Season 8 of 

Léo Matteï, minors' brigade

is broadcast from Thursday evening on TF1.

A season 9 is already in preparation.

His shooting will be confirmed according to the audiences of this new season.