Gérald Darmanin, a rock in the “Storm” at the Ministry of the Interior

FRANCE 5 – SUNDAY JULY 6 AT 9:05 PM – DOCUMENTARY

On May 14, 2024, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is working on Olympic security. In his office at Place Beauvau in Paris, he searches the floor for a file before heading to the reception desk of the Military Service Council of the Gendarmerie. There, surrounded by blue shirts, he chats, smiling, until his smartphone alerts him: a commando unit has just attacked the prison convoy transporting Mohamed Amra at the Incarville toll booth (Eure).

"They shot the guys. Two are in UA [absolute emergency] , one in UR [relative emergency], " an advisor tells him. "Give me five minutes," he says to the camera Yann L'Hénoret is holding, before disappearing behind a door. The director has been following him for two weeks now, making an immersive documentary – his specialty, since his Emmanuel Macron, les coulisses d'une victoire (Troisième Œil Productions and Black Dynamite), in 2017.

The future of the Minister of the Interior, like that of the film, has just changed. From a political portrait of a potential contender for the Élysée Palace in 2027, the documentary transforms into a tale of unprecedented crises. In three months, the crisis in New Caledonia, the sabotage of TGV lines, the dissolution of the National Assembly, early legislative elections, the attack on the Rouen synagogue... and the interminable wait for a new government will unfold.

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