Ni travail, ni famille, ni patrie

On March 1, 1996, 15-year-old Shafeeq Murrel was killed on the street in South Philadelphia — innocently caught in the crossfire between rival pairs of crack dealers out for revenge. Shafeeq’s murder was one of 435 in Philadelphia that year, and it was soon shelved as a cold case. Then, detectives David Baker and Julie Hill took it on— two middle-aged white cops working a Black neighborhood in their battered Plymouth Gran Fury.  Filmed like a taut police procedural, THE SHOOTING ON MOLE STREET chronicles the investigation, as Baker and Hill knock on doors, shake down dealers, and beg, threaten and cajole residents in an effort to get someone — anyone — to talk. Baker rejects any accusation of police racism in the unsolved murders of young Black men. Isn’t he out here trying to close the case? But racism is more complicated than intent.

Philadelphia: fusillade de Mole Street

1995. On the outskirts of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast, a policeman is murdered. Shot outside his vehicle, while his fiancée sits in the car, terrified. Superintendent Kouassi is the detective in charge of the investigation. Tall and lanky, he moves with the tired energy of a man who has seen it all. Drawing on a network of underworld characters with dubious information, Kouassi's team begins bringing in potential suspects and subjecting them to horrific brutality: beating them with sticks, hanging them upside-down, threatening their lives. Some of the men are left so broken they have to literally drag themselves into Kouassi's office later, to be interrogated while lying on the floor, their bodies a mess of bruises, broken bones, and lacerations. Part of director Mosco Boucault's "Police Investigations" series, A MURDER IN ABIDJAN powerfully captures the banality of police violence. And it raises the question: Why use such horrific tactics when they are ultimately pointless?

Un crime à Abidjan

How the head of the Italian government took over the country's largest publishing house. A brisk, fierce and biting enquiry into the heart of high finance, the legal system and politics.

Berlusconi, Affaire Mondadori

Un corps sans vie de 19 ans

Boulevard de Belfort, the police headquarters. Six investigations depict a formerly prosperous town, decaying neighbourhoods, a society with no prospects.