The Perpignan sentence enforcement judge delivered his verdict in the Christian Quesada case on Thursday, October 6. The ex-champion of TF1 will remain in prison for another month.
It is a case that had caused a lot of reaction. In March 2019, Christian Quesada, who became known following his participation in the 12 noon shotswas detained for “corruption of minor” and “possession and dissemination of child images“. A year later, in April 2020, after being found guilty of corruption of minors on four young girls, between April 1, 2017 and March 25, 2019, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the correctional court of Bourg-en-Bresse. This Thursday, October 6, Christian Quesada was facing the Perpignan sentence enforcement judge. Arrested on September 27, he did not respect one of the requirements of his parole, that of working. So he was sentenced to stay one more month in prison. However, this is not the first time that he has failed to comply with a legal obligation. Indeed, the psychologist who followed him had prescribed a socio-judicial follow-up planned for sex offenders and criminals but the principal concerned ignored it. A major failure that did not work in his favor and therefore brings him back to square one.
Christian Quesada was very popular with TF1 viewers. It is by taking part in Jean-Luc Reichmann’s famous game, the 12 noon shots, that he was able to gain their trust. He was midday master for almost 200 shows and won more than 800,000 euros. A few months later, the dream turned into a nightmare when an underage girl filed a complaint against him. In her statement, she said she had interacted with Christian Quesada online and he pretended to be a minor. He had thus asked her to undress but also to send him photos of a sexual nature. Quickly, a investigation had been opened and hundreds of compromising images and videos of minors and child victims of sexual assault or rape had been found on the computer of the principal concerned. Christian Quesada was then sentenced in a closed trial, to three years in prison. He was released in March 2021 after spending two years in the prison’s solitary confinement. This conviction was not the first, however, since the former TF1 champion had already been twice. The first dates from 2002 for “sexual display” then in 2009 for “possession and consultation of child pornography”. Revelations that have not gone unnoticed.
Christian Quesada: was the ex-champion a man on the run?
Following his release, Christian Quesada has been talked about a lot. Quickly, it had been explained that after passing “two years in the solitary confinement section of Bourg-en-Bresse prison”, the 56-year-old man had been released after having “served his entire sentence, through remission“. Subject to many very strict rules, including in particular that of being permanently locatable, Christian Quesada also had to respond to all “the summons of a sentence enforcement judge. He must be available when we visit him, and he must warn of any change of residence or travel of more than 15 days“, indicated Gilles Verdez on the set of Do not touch My TV. Subsequently, however, he clarified that the champion was not found. “He disappeared without leaving an address. He had given an address the day after his release from prison in Bourg-en-Bresse. So he gives an address, he settles down, and then he disappears, he leaves“, he added. A run that ended during his arrest in September 2022.