Guilty as Charged (2012)
A detective series centered around a police station in a working-class suburb of a provincial French city (the St. Herblain area of Nantes, to be exact), where detached houses with kitchen gardens rub shoulders with tower blocks. There's no mafia or organized crime, just petty lawbreaking, but it keeps our cops busy. Fights that get out of hand, conjugal disputes, quarrels between neighbors, family tiffs, pick-pocketing, pilfering from building sites, minor trafficking and illegal laborers. And plenty of bodily harm, from the trivial to the extremely grievous and, at times, even fatal. Against this backdrop of everyday lawlessness, the series paints a picture of people's lives when they slip out of control, veering into the comic, the tragic or the absurd.
- Marie Guilmineau
Country: FR
Language: Fr
Runtime: 52
Season 1:
In this time of economic and financial crisis, times are tough for everyone. Precariousness pushes some people to seek solutions that they sometimes think they find illegally. As a result, business is increasing in the police station in the suburbs of Nantes in which Commander Kreusky works, at the head of a team of ten people. Hiding her skin-deep sensitivity under a disillusioned appearance, she tries to keep the ship afloat. She has to navigate with discernment between the theft of vegetables in a garden, the pick-pocketing of a prostitute and the assault of a granny by two teenagers.
Everybody goes out on Saturday nights. Teenagers are bored and get drunk. Sometimes things go wrong. Binge drinking leads to an alcoholic coma. Even parents are out of their minds. Everybody shows up at the police station. The night will be long, very long.
An epidemic of flu has emptied the police station. There is a small riot in the suburbs at the Cité des Muguets. Fighting turns into rubbish bin throwing. The police has a hard time waking up a drunk who fell asleep in his car while his daughter is crying on the back seat.
Things go wrong quickly. An arrested boy tries to commit suicide in the police station. His father gets very angry, but the family is acting so weird that Kreusky and her team decide to dig deeper. The drug deal in the Cité has brought the narcotics at the Police station.
It's Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree is in the cafeteria, everything's fine. Except that an ordinary man decides to burglarize a small jewellery store. He takes the saler as a hostage. A school teacher is worried about her son. She accuses her sister of locking him up.
A flagrante delicto ordered by the Chief officer goes wrong. Lieutenant Karine shoots. Too hastily. The whole story started because of Pascal, the unlucky guy who opened a French Fries House near the police station. Hold up by the cops, hold up by the Cité, he is about to commit suicide.
Teenagers don't always realize the impact that stupid things they think are harmless can have. At 14, stealing a few croissants from a bakery doesn't seem like a big deal. For the trader, there is no real cause for alarm. What could the police do about it? They can't just wait for the kids to come. Until the bakery is ransacked and the baker goes mad.
Two teenager girls fall for the same guy and are torn apart. Until they realize he betrayed them with a third girl, who is not even from the city. The decide to take revenge.
