93, rue Lauriston is a French made-for-television movie by Denys Granier-Deferre first broadcast in 2004 on Canal+.

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During the Nazis occupation 93 rue Lauriston housed the headquarters of the French Gestapo [fr], known as the "Carlingue".

German authorities relied on French criminals for much of the routine police work. Provided with German credentials, these thugs were untouchable. Run by Pierre Bonny, a police inspector discharged for corruption, and Henri Lafont, a prison escapee, the Bonny-Lafont gang hunted Jews and Resistance fighters, extorted and racketeered, and provided Tout-Paris with black market and other services such as pimping.

The film begins with the early-morning arrest of Lafont and his acolytes on 30 August on a farm encircled by police. Through the lens of inspector Blot's investigation of Bonny and Lafont after their execution, the film comes back to the sinister activities of the Légion nord-africaine [fr] in southern France and the French Gestapo in Paris. The policeman put together a thick file that compromised some public figures who associated with the two. But France had already put the épuration behind it and nobody was interested in his accusations. The film ends with Blot's bitter words: "Ah! Que la France est belle…" (Ah, how beautiful France is!)[1]

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  1. ^ Dans le ventre de la bête: Fiction. Avec l'audacieux 93, rue Lauriston, Canal Plus explore ce passé qui ne passe pas. (In the Belly of the Beast: Fiction. With the audacious 93, rue Lauriston, Canal Plus explores the past that doesn't pass), Humanité, 11 December 2004

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