From July 4, 2016 to January 14, 2017,
Christian Quesada
was followed daily by millions of viewers in
"Les 12 coups de midi"
on TF1.
In 193 entries, the one who entered the game hosted by Jean-Luc Reichmann with great financial difficulties left with a prize pool of 809,392 euros, including 599,250 euros in cash.
His personal story and exceptional career have made him a very prominent personality, sought after from all sides and multiplying appearances on television.
Until March 27, 2019 when the 55-year-old champion was indicted and imprisoned for possession and dissemination of child pornography images.
On April 8, 2020, the Bourg-en-Bresse criminal court found him guilty of this charge as well as of "corruption of minors" and sentenced him to a three-year prison term.
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“Christian Quesada minimizes the facts”
On March 25, 2021, Christian Quesada had obtained conditional release and had to respect a certain number of obligations such as socio-psychological follow-up and the ban on dating minors.
On September 26, he was returned to prison for a few weeks for non-compliance with his conditional sentence.
Before his return to the Bourg-en-Bresse penitentiary, the former champion of the “Twelve noon shots” had taken the initiative to contact Guillaume Genton, columnist in “Touche pas à mon poste!
and producer of several documentaries about him.
Recorded telephone exchanges which were broadcast this Thursday evening on C8 in
"Christian Quesada comes out of silence"
.
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Of the 90 minutes of conversation, Guillaume Genton only kept the most important passages.
“
He minimized the facts of which he is accused.
He had a playful tone, and made jokes
, “he told us in” Le Buzz TV “.
“
It was so vulgar that I couldn't fit it into the documentary.
Christian Quesada sexualizes all conversations and it's interesting to decipher to understand his personality.
On his legal file, Christian Quesada brings a nuance.
“The facts for which I have been indicted, which is called the corruption of minors, it is called a crime.
I am not a criminal, I am a delinquent
, he underlines.
I recognized the facts, I paid heavily for them.
I don't need to go back over the harm, humanly, that I was able to do to the four people concerned.
There are two people who are a little more victims than two others.
“
And to add:
” I have just served a relatively long prison sentence in relation to the incriminating facts.
Because there was this media frenzy, because I'm famous
.
Christian Quesada considers himself "ephebophile" and not "pedophile"
During his imprisonment in solitary confinement, Christian Quesada did not miss anything that was said about him on television, in particular on C8.
“There was this decision by Genton Productions to make a first film about me.
Indeed, I am someone bankable, I want to admit
it, he congratulates himself before reproaching the word given to certain alleged victims of his actions.
Starting with Mélissa who came to testify in “TPMP” on April 16, 2019.
“You bring in someone who is not very balanced on a psychiatric level, who announces that I was raping her while this person has filed a complaint for touching, which is already very different.
Nothing happened with her, neither the slightest touch, nor anything, her complaint was dismissed.
“
Then the Niçoise Loreen, 17, had testified on March 29, 2021 in “TPMP” to have been invited to the home of Christian Quesada, to have spent four days alone with him during which he would have tried to kiss him one morning when he woke up.
She would have resisted, refused and asked to leave.
“You brought a young woman on set who said she was with me, I wanted to kiss her, she said no and I kissed her.
, commented Christian Quesada before releasing an explanation of the most amazing.
“If I wasn't concerned, my first instinct would be to say that this guy is a gentleman, frankly.
The girl said no, he's taking her home, he's really nice.
»
Faced with accusations of "paedophilia", Christian Quesada denies being sexually attracted to very young people.
"It's called ephebophilia
(an adult's sexual preference for pubescent adolescents, editor's note)", he persuades himself.
A definition which does not correspond to the content of the investigation file obtained by Guillaume Genton and of which certain details were presented in the C8 documentary.