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In late 2018<\/span>, France ground to a\u00a0halt on the back of the gilets jaunes protests in which naffed-off labourers downed tools and expressed their grief on the streets. In Paris, members of the law enforcement anti-gang brigade (BRI<\/span>) were handed a The first half of Case 137<\/span> <\/i>is its most interesting, with Moll grinding down into the micro details of the investigation and showcasing all the tools at St\u00e9phanie and her team\u2019s disposal. Yet in its second half, the film shifts into a\u00a0more conventional moral debate about the issues that such a\u00a0case throws up: whether police solidarity should be maintained in all instances so as to maintain the illusion of strength and order, or should the bad eggs be punished as a\u00a0way to demonstrate that the police are not an impenetrable and monolithic unit who formulate the rules as they go\u00a0along.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
remit to tool up as quickly as possible and take whatever steps were necessary to calm tensions and suppress those protestors who were deemed a\u00a0public menace.
This new film by reliable French director Dominik Moll zeroes in on the fate of a\u00a0single teenager who, as a\u00a0result of this loosey-goosey approach to crowd control, is shot in the face and suffers life-altering brain damage as a\u00a0result. L\u00e9a Drucker\u2019s St\u00e9phanie heads up an internal affairs unit \u2013 the person who polices the police \u2013 looking into the incident and the rogue band responsible for destroying this person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n