The singer-songwriter has just celebrated his 84th birthday but does not plan to retire immediately. After more than 67 years of career,
Jean-Jacques Debout
releases a new album entitled
Frida Kahlo
. Invited on the set of “C à vous”, the husband of Chantal Goya also returned to his relationship with Jacques Mesrine, whom he knew before his destiny as a criminal, when they were still children.
Despite divergent destinies, the two men remained friends for a long time. While on tour to support Barbara in Canada, Jean-Jacques Debout is kidnapped by the criminal. Jacques Mesrine was then already wanted by Interpol and on the run when he decided to wait, hooded, for the singer when the artists left.
“When I was kidnapped I didn’t know it was him
,” explains the guest to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. He finally discovered the problem after the car started, at the moment when Jacques Mesrine decided to remove his hood and say:
“turn around Jean-Jacques, it's me Jacky”
. And this incredible anecdote has the merit of surprising the France 5 presenter who exclaims:
“but it’s completely crazy”
.
“He was slapping her”
Jean-Jacques Debout then continues his story.
“The car almost crashed into a store on Sherbrooke Avenue in Montreal. Besides, what scared me was that he was sitting near me, in the back of the car, and when he found that the car wasn't going fast enough, he would slap the driver. . He told him
“go for it, go for it, I have all the police behind me.” And although the anecdote could make you smile years later, the singer was afraid for his life. "
It was terrible. And the more he yelled at her and asked her to go for it, the more he slapped her. The poor driver was jerking the wheel, he no longer knew where he was. I told myself we were going to crash, that we wouldn't make it alive. »
Particularly caught up in this story, all the columnists remain silent while Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine says:
“it looks like a scene from
Tontons flingueurs”.