Netflix’s "Braqueurs" Series Explores Belgian-Moroccan Organized Crime

In the series "Braqueurs", Sami Bouajila plays the role of Mehdi, a highly professional robber and gang leader, who moves heaven and earth to find his kidnapped niece, with the help of a cheeky young delinquent, also looking for her girlfriend. The director of the film and the series, Julien Leclercq, appreciates the professionalism of the Tunisian-born actor. "Sami is great. He loves it. [...] We are in an adrenaline DNA, he is a warrior of major crime. At one point, the only enemy he has is time and the police," he said in France Info.

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The series is "a police thriller without cops, robbers versus dealers... What interested us was to confront these families in a chaos of action," explains the director. And to add: "What was also interesting was to deal with the strata of crime. They, it’s the lowest. It steals iphones, it steals in handbags, on terraces, it cuts labels in clothing stores, and it gets out like that. And it’s going to have to associate and confront robbers who are almost paramilitary groups".

"Braqueurs" also refers to the Mocro-maffia of Antwerp, the very active Moroccan mafia in the cocaine trade. The series, shot in six episodes, will be available this week on Netflix.