Maigret's dead man - 2016

I enjoyed this one even more than the first; I was more comfortable seeing Atkinson as Maigret, and his detectives were now familiar faces, and I quite enjoyed this one. Again, I read the Maigret’s stories so long ago I remember nothing at all, I’ll read them again one day. For now, I can only judge the film, and the film was good, well made and well acted, I liked them all.
The story was interesting although very evil. It starts with the case of entire families killed in their farms: that case is not Maigret’s. We also see a man trying to outrun someone dangerous: he tries calling Maigret telling him that he knows his wife Nina, and that night a disfigured body is dumped in the streets. The chief of police wants Maigret to close the case considering it unworthy of their time because he thinks the dead man was “underground” but Maigret doesn’t think so and he also feels personally involved since the man called him personally. 
When all his men are assigned to work on the murdered families case, he keeps investigating this one with his loyal inspectors Janvier and Lapointe. 
Not surprisingly the two cases end up being related. They discover some Slovaks, drug-addict thugs who followed the orders of Jean (I think) a “gent”, meaning someone with money and good clothes and nothing more, he was definitely not a gentle man. 
The guy would tell the gang which family had money and jewels and they would go and kill everyone and steal everything and give it all to him. He made a lot of money and they got their drugs. 
The last family left a survivor though, so Maigret has a witness, a young girl who can identify a woman as the one who killed her mother. She’s arrested and taken to a hospital to give birth; the other two man die, one killed by the ‘gent’ and the other killed by Javier when he tried to kill the woman in custody. 
They also killed Albert, Maigret’s dead man, because he had somehow understood what they were and what they had done and could set the police on them. He was a good man, trying to start a family with his wife. At the end, Maigret promises Nina that he’ll try his best to have her allowed to adopt the murderess’ baby. 

 I really liked the last we saw of Jean, when Maigret went to talk to him, to tell him Albert’s name and life. Jean’s words were full of contempt and disgust for such a little man, and Maigret tells him that “for all his little bets and his little winnings, his life was more successful than yours, because he didn’t end up in a cage like an animal, despised by everyone, with nothing to look forward except his execution” and since this is a film and not real life and therefore we are absolutely sure that the guy and that woman are guilty of something horrible and of irredeemable cruelty, I’d say the guillotine sounds good for them. 

ITA l'uomo morto di Maigret