Elite cops and scientific experts: the secrets of their investigations | M6 | Enquête Exclusive

€600,000 worth of jewels and gold bars stolen from an apartment, €100,000 worth stolen from another: over recent weeks a team of burglars has been climbing the walls of the capital’s chic apartment blocks and escaping with mind-boggling loot without trace. Analysis of their MO, DNA search, but also tails and phone tapping: how are the police going to track down this gang that is creaming off the smart neighbourhoods? In Paris the detectives of the Police Judiciaire, the famous PJ, are the men who deal with the most sensitive cases. Beside them, in the field, they are supported by other sleuths: experts from the Forensic Squad. Our crews followed them for a year, to the places cameras are not normally allowed: the early investigations, on the crime scenes and then into the labs. Hold-ups, serial burglaries: this elite force must also confront delicate situations such as in Paris when, in broad daylight, an armed man enters a bank and holds the staff hostage, or when a situation threatens to get out of hand, such as in a sensitive neighbourhood following a deadly fire.