"
I'm not going to lie to you, we thought about 'The Serpent'
".
On the Puremedia site, Léa Salamé responds to the controversy concerning her invitation to Charles Sobhraj.
Saturday, February 18, in "What an era!"
on France 2, the journalist interviewed the 78-year-old man convicted of murders in Asia in the 1970s and imprisoned in Nepal for the past twenty years before being released in December for health reasons.
A highly criticized face-to-face, in particular by Christophe Hondelatte.
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I had doubts, it's not easy,
" says Léa Salamé today before defending, despite everything, her editorial choice.
“
However, the guy spent half his life in prison.
He served his sentence.
His story has sparked dozens of books and movies.
There was the huge success of the Netflix series.
He pulls out his book.
After all, that's also the time
, ”she explains, referring to the name of her weekly show.
“
I knew it was going to provoke reactions, we assume them
”
Lea Salame
“
It's the era.
It was a crazy time
”, repeats the morning worker from France Inter, while specifying that the interview was “
very supervised and broadcast at 1 am
”.
“I
remind you that TF1 broadcast its interview with 'Le Serpent' in 'Seven to Eight' at 7 p.m.
We were the last guest
, ”she adds.
“
I knew it was going to arouse reactions, we assume them
”, she concludes on the subject.
"
We cannot receive a serial killer, and make it a 'star'
", had denounced Christophe Hondelatte earlier this week on Twitter.
“
And do you know where I got this moral from?
From France 2, and my passage in "Fait Enter l'Accusé
", had quipped the presenter and specialist in various facts.
