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Netflix docuseries covering the Bettencourt affair — the explosive French scandal around L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, her alleged financial exploitation, and a political crisis that shook France.

Raël: The Alien Prophet is a Netflix docuseries exposing Raëlism, the UFO-based cult founded by French ex-journalist Claude Vorilhon, accused of fraud, abuse, and a cloning hoax.

November 13: Attack on Paris is a Netflix documentary series about the coordinated ISIS terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis, France, told through survivor and first-responder testimony.

Netflix's From Rock Star to Killer is a 3-part documentary about the 2003 fatal beating of French actress Marie Trintignant by her partner, Noir Désir frontman Bertrand Cantat.

Cocaine Air is a Netflix documentary series about the 2013 Air Cocaine case, in which 700 kg of drugs were found aboard a Falcon 50 jet at Punta Cana airport.

The Marie Trintignant case is a solved French femicide in which actress Marie Trintignant, 41, died on August 1, 2003, after being beaten by her partner, rock singer Bertrand Cantat, in a Vilnius hotel room.

The Raëlian Movement cases are a series of French and European legal disputes involving the UFO-based religious group founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, testing the boundaries of religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom of expression.

The 2015 Paris Attacks are a coordinated ISIS terrorist operation in which nine jihadists killed 130 people across six sites in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015.

Netflix documentary series about the Fourniret-Olivier serial murder case in France and Belgium, re-examining Monique Olivier's role in at least seven killings between 1987 and 2003.

Twisted Yoga is a true crime documentary series about Romanian yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru, arrested in France in 2023 on charges of human trafficking, kidnapping and rape. Streaming on Apple TV+.

Netflix docuseries covering the Outreau case, a catastrophic French judicial scandal where 17 adults were falsely accused of running a pedophilia ring in a small northern French town.

Who Killed Little Gregory? is a Netflix documentary series covering l'Affaire Grégory, the unsolved 1984 murder of four-year-old Grégory Villemin in Vosges, France.

Faites entrer l'accusé is a French true-crime documentary series covering 200+ real criminal cases — murders, rapes, terrorism — streaming on RMC BFM Play and YouTube.

Paris holds far more than art and romance. A unique exhibition and a series of guided tours bring the city's darkest history to light, exploring notorious serial killers and their crimes. Visitors can trace the shadows of French criminal history through authentic artifacts and expert-led walks.

Paris hides centuries of murder beneath its elegant façades. These verified tours take you from Revolution-era execution grounds to FBI-profiled serial killers.

Antonio Ferrara, the French-Italian criminal infamous for two audacious prison escapes, was arrested on February 27, 2025, during an armed police operation in Eupen, Belgium. The 51-year-old was apprehended alongside multiple co-conspirators in a joint French-Belgian raid targeting an alleged plot to rob a German bank vault.

Kim Kardashian was attacked and robbed at a luxury apartment in Paris in the early hours of October 3, 2016. Five men, some disguised as police officers, stormed her room and stole jewelry worth around nine million euros.

Pascal Payet, a French criminal convicted of murder during a 1997 security van robbery, made international headlines by engineering three separate helicopter escapes from prison between 2001 and 2007. Known by the alias 'Kalashnikov Pat,' Payet's audacious aerial breakouts—each lasting mere minutes—exposed vulnerabilities in European prison security and made him one of the continent's most wanted fugitives.

When Nazi leaders faced trial in Nuremberg in 1945-46, the Allies pioneered a radical legal experiment: treating defeated enemies as ordinary criminals, not conquered foes. The tribunal's verdicts established principles that underpin modern human rights courts worldwide.

Rédoine Faïd, born 1972, blasted his way out of a French prison in 2013 and escaped another by helicopter in 2018. He has since been sentenced to a combined term that keeps him behind bars until at least 2060.