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‘Detective Touré’ Creators David Pérez Sañudo and Carlos Vila Sexto on the Kind of Hero Spain Has Never Seen: ‘He Has to Deal With Things Colombo Never Had To’


‘Detective Touré’ stars Malcolm Treviño-Sitté as immigrant-turned-PI, based on the novels by Basque Jon Arretxe.

Set in Bilbao’s neighborhood San Francisco, it sees an immigrant from Guinea – with acute skills of deduction – who becomes immersed in a complex investigation, with the Nigerian mafia on his trail. Unax Ugalde, “Money Heist’s” Itziar Ituño, Loreto Mauleón, Itsaso Arana and Urko Olazabal star, with Malcolm Treviño-Sitté tapped as the ever-hopeful lead. “We had help from Jon, who lived in the San Francisco neighborhood for over a year in order to write the first book of the series, and Lucía and Marra: two very well-known and respected members of the African community in Bilbao.

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