Spies of Terror
Spies of Terror, or Les espions de la terreur, is a French spy thriller, crime drama television miniseries, which was streamed from June 2024 via M6 (TV channel)#6play (formerly [M6 Replay; subsequently M6+)|M6+]. It is a dramatisation of the investigation of the November 2015 Paris attacks, by French Secret Service agents. It was created by Franck Philippon based on 's book, Les espions de la terreur. Its four episodes are directed by. Philippe Jakko won the Festival de la Fiction's Best Music prize, in La Rochelle, September 2023. The main characters are Malika, Lucie, Vincent, Alexandre and Gomez.
Premise
Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, French Secret Service agents from Directorate-General for External Security, General Directorate for Internal Security and Direction Zonale de la Sécurité Intérieure cooperate to hunt the perpetrators.Cast and characters
- Rachida Brakni as Malika Berthier: DGSE head of European office, leads investigation into terrorist network's leaders
- Fleur Geffrier as Lucie Kessler: DGSI Commandant, supervises judicial police response to attacks
- Vincent Elbaz as Vincent Morin: DZSI Major in Lille
- as Alexandre Lebrun: DGSI Commandant, Lucie's partner
- Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Gomez: DGSI Commissaire, Lucie's boss
- Rachid Guellaz as Saïd: Muslim, suspected drug-dealer, worried about radicalised younger brother
- Olivier Faliez as Demoustier: Colonel, Alexandre's boss
- Cédric Vieira as Benoît: Malika's husband
- as Sébastien Le Tallec
- Julie Duclos as Manon: works for Lucie
- Azad Boutella as Le Repenti Aziz Bellaoui: prisoner, Lucie's informant
- Bellamine Abdelmalek as Anis Bahri: radicalised Muslim, suspected terrorist
- Walid Ben Mabrouk as Reda Kriket: radicalised Muslim, Anis' associate
Production