90′ Enquêtes – Corsica, Saint-Tropez: the summer of all excesses for the gendarmes of the South – 90′ Enquêtes

With the Covid pandemic and the difficulties in traveling outside our borders, once more this year many French people have chosen to spend their holidays on national territory, in particular on the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea. Result: a record influx of tourists in the South and a lot of work for the police. Like in Saint-Tropez, one of the leading destinations on the Côte d’Azur. The small port, famous all over the world, an unmissable meeting place for the jet set with its megayachts, its crystal clear waters and its luxury boutiques, attracts more than 5 million holidaymakers in summer. Wild days and nights that give the traffic cops a hard time. All summer, we followed the men of the motorized brigades of Gassin, Saint-Tropez and Draguignan, grappling with drivers of all kinds. Between rich tourists, speed freaks, drug abuse and hectic clubbing for very alcoholic young people, for the gendarmes is really not the holidays! We also shared the daily life of the gendarmes in Corsica. Between turquoise sea, dream beach and guaranteed sunshine, 2 million tourists land on the Island of Beauty in July-August. To ensure their safety, the workforce is reinforced by mobile gendarmes who arrive from the mainland to lend a hand to their local colleagues during this high-risk period. Between gunshots, suspicious fires, accidents with Corsican cows and rescue at sea… some missions will turn out to be rather surprising and very unexpected! This is what 200 mobile gendarmes from Dijon and Annecy will discover who have put their gear in Calvi and Porto-Vecchio during this summer of all excesses.