The ‘DSK affair’, as it came to be known, had major political and cultural implications that went way beyond France. In 2011, when the scandal broke, Anne-Cécile Genre and Marine Pradel covered every aspect of the affair for all French television channels. In this film, they return to the story 15 years later to show how the media’s polarising coverage of the story fuelled cultural wars that silenced the victim.
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During two long years of war, far from the public eye, the Ethiopian army — along with the Amhara militias and the Eritreans — waged a merciless war against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Alongside the military fighting, they used another weapon: systematic mass rape. It’s estimated that 120,000 women were targeted.
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Behind its idyllic beaches, turquoise waters and lush forests, Mexico is running out of water. The cause is global warming, which is hitting Mexico even harder than the rest of Latin America, but that’s not the only problem. The race for economic development, necessary in a country where 30% of the population lives below the poverty line, is slowly destroying resources, while the cartels are trying to monopolise water supplies.
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Not so long ago, Uruguay was considered a haven of peace in South America. But in recent years, this small country has been overwhelmed by drug trafficking, insecurity, and rising violence. In an attempt to curb this illegal trade and prevent Uruguay from descending into chaos, investigators, assisted by special intervention forces, hunt down the traffickers.
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What if you could help the police solve Europe’s most mysterious cold cases? That’s the challenge taken up by ‘Operation Identify Me’, which calls on the general public to help identify the bodies of women found in France and across Europe.
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In South Africa, murders are being committed over rhinoceros horns. The country is home to 80% of the planet’s rhinos, a critically endangered species. This war is fuelled by demand in Asia, where the horn, believed to possess miraculous medicinal properties, fetches the same price as cocaine.
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French prisons are among the most overcrowded in Europe. The country’s prison system is on the brink of collapse, putting prison staff on the front line. We gained unprecedented access to three notorious French prisons to reveal the scale of the problem.
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On the Asian black market, a dead adult tiger is worth around $50,000. In this exclusive investigation, we track down the kingpins of a powerful tiger cartel stretching across Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and China and infiltrate their clandestine factory farms where tigers are factory-farmed like livestock. A high-risk investigation across Southeast Asia.
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It’s estimated that 1500 monkeys are smuggled out of the Democratic Republic of Congo every year in a trade worth millions of dollars. When a crate of 40 monkeys coming from the DRC was intercepted back in 2023, it provided a window into how corrupt officials, working with poachers, operate with impunity.
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