On February 14, 2013, the whole world was in shock upon learning of the death of Reeva Steenkamp, killed by Oscar Pistorius. The story has all the ingredients of a Hollywood scenario... A high-level athlete, rich and handsome, shoots his girlfriend, a young blonde model with blue eyes, dead by shooting her four times on Valentine's Day . But it's not cinema. This is the true story of the South African Paralympic champion and his partner, killed at the age of 29.
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You may have in mind the image of this man with sad eyes, short hair, impeccably shaved, entering or leaving the court, in the middle of a cloud of photographers. For the athlete, it is the beginning of the descent into hell. No one could have expected this improbable outcome for someone who had become a true “national hero”.
In this mini-series from the
Scandals
podcast dedicated to the major cases that shook the world of sport, journalist Camille Maestracci returns to this dark story of murder. What really happened that night? And what happens to Oscar Pistorius today, 10 years after the fact?
At the journalist's microphone follow one another:
- Laurent Louët, journalist at Le
Figaro
, former editor-in-chief of the sports department
- John Carlin, English journalist, author of the book
Oscar Pistorius: The fallen hero of South Africa
Scandals is a
Madame Figaro
podcast
, written and presented by Marion Galy-Ramounot, and produced by Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Camille Maestracci is the author and voice of this mini-series dedicated to sports scandals. Océane Ciuni is the editorial manager of
Scandales
, a podcast produced by Louie Créative, the audio content agency of Louie Média. This episode can be found on all listening platforms: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music.