Christian Quesada was again arrested, as revealed by Midi Libre on Tuesday September 27. He is now in solitary confinement in Perpignan prison.
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 Coups de Midi, was placed in detention 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 is sentenced to three years in prison by the correctional court of Bourg-en-Bresse. According to information from Free lunchconfirmed by News Perpignan this Tuesday, September 27, Christian Quesada was again arrested. He was arrested on Monday September 26 before being placed in detention at the Perpignan penitentiary centre. The media then indicates that, during his parole, he had moved to the Pyrénées-Orientales but had to follow a socio-judicial follow-up planned for sex offenders and criminals. An obligation which was not respected and the sentence enforcement judge would have decided to revoke his parole. Placed in solitary confinement, he has no contact with the other prisoners.
It is by taking part in the famous TF1 game, the 12 noon shots, that Christian Quesada made himself known to the public. Much appreciated for his knowledge, he had been Maître de midi for almost 200 shows and had won more than 800,000 euros in earnings. In 2017, the candidate had published a autobiography in which he had recounted his television journey which he seemed to be delighted with. A few months later, the dream took a new turn when a 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, an 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.
Christian Quesada, a man on the run?
When Christian Quesada was released, many questions arose, particularly concerning his sentence. “After two years spent in the solitary confinement section of Bourg-en-Bresse prison, Christian Quesada, 56, has just been released.said the media Progress before specifying: “He served his entire sentence, through the game of remissions“. Subsequently, it was Gilles Verdez who, on the set of Do not touch My TV, had mentioned this release. He had explained that the principal concerned was subject to certain strict rules, including in particular that of being permanently locatable. “He is subject to very strict judicial monitoring and must respond to all summonses from a sentence enforcement judge. He must be available when he is visited, and he must notify of any change of residence or travel of more than 15 days“, first explained Gilles Verdez before adding that he was obviously on the run. “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“. It was therefore in Perpignan that he was and that he could be arrested more than a year after his release.
Christian Quesada already sentenced twice
This condemnation was publicized since Christian Quesada was for a long time the midday master of Jean-Luc Reichmann’s program. However, he had already been sentenced twice. The first dates from 2002 for “sexual display” then in 2009 for “possession and consultation of child pornography”. On the set of Do not touch My TV last September, five months after his conviction, in a letter addressed to the columnist Guillaume Genton, the candidate had tried to defend himself: “I remind you that the facts for which I was arrested are certainly serious and reprehensible, but these remain misdemeanors, punishable by correctional, which, through hateful blindness, have turned into a cathodic trial more virulent than for Fourniret, Lelandais or Abdeslam“, he had written. Words that had aroused the indignation of the chroniclers.