Balthazar returns this Thursday, January 26 on TF1 for a second unreleased episode of its final season. In this plot, a young influencer will be at the heart of the investigation by Camille and her team.
TF1 broadcasts this Thursday, January 26 from 9:10 p.m. a new episode of season 5 of Balthazar. In Under the influence, Camille (Constance Labbé) and her team arrive at the roommate of two young women, one of whom is missing. On one of the walls of the apartment it is written in red letters “Slut“. The person sought is 20 years old, is called Gabrielle Gauthier, and is an influencer advocating positive thinking and followed by two million subscribers on social networks.
What is the connection between this episode of Balthazar and the Gabby Petito case?
The plots of the detective series Balthazar do they find their inspiration in true stories? “We always start from true stories or stories that we have heard, from various facts. Each time, we start from several sources of inspiration that mix“, explained to us Clothilde Jamin, co-creator, co-screenwriter and co-producer of Balthazar. And to clarify about this second episode of season 5: “it was written at the time of the disappearance of the influencer Gabby Petito in the United States.Wink or not, the influencer in Balthazar is thus named Gabrielle, of which Gabby is the diminutive. But the Gabby Petito affair obviously only served as a context of inspiration for this episode which very quickly goes in another direction.
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Reminder of the Gabby Petito case
As a reminder, in the fall of 2021, for several weeks, the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a young 22-year-old American influencer, had occupied the headlines in the United States. She had gone on a trip with her companion in the American West before mysteriously disappearing. In September 2021, the lifeless body of the young woman, killed following “blunt object injuries to the head and neck with manual strangulation“, had been found in Wyoming. In October, the body of her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, had been found in Florida. The young man committed suicide after leaving the confession of the murder of his partner in a notebook .
