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Angela Merkel detective series premieres in Italy

An unlikely crime series depicting German former Chancellor Angela Merkel as a small-town amateur detective premiered Friday in Italy.

Italian viewers appeared to be abuzz with anticipation — and some surprise — ahead of the broadcast of a two-part television series that portrays Angela Merkel as an Agatha Christie-style sleuth. After leaving political office, the alternative reality "Miss Merkel" has settled down in the Uckermark district of eastern Germany, where the real-life ex-chancellor grew up and later bought a holiday home. She lives with her husband, Joachim Sauer, and her bodyguard, Mike, but grows bored with retirement and starts investigating criminal cases — to the chagrin of both men.

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