Christophe Hondelatte pointed the finger at Léa Salamé’s invitation to serial killer Charles Sobhraj in his program Quelle époque!, Sunday February 12 on France 2. The journalist specializing in miscellaneous facts reacted on Twitter.
For his show What an era!, Lea Salame receives a special guest. This Sunday, the journalist welcomed a certain Charles Sobhraj – the man was convicted of several murders in Asia. The serial killer is back in France, released after serving a 20-year prison sentence in Nepal. A controversial visit. In effect, Christophe Hondelatte got offended on Twitter. The journalist from Europe 1, who presents the program Hondelatte Told by Christophe Hondelatte wrote : “I refused to do that. You can’t take in a serial killer and make him a ‘star’. And do you know where I got this moral from? From France 2, and my passage in Make Enter the Accused!
Asked by Internet users about some of his guests in Let the accused entera program he was present for a long time from 2000 to 2011, he replied: “I have never received accused (one says indicted) condemned, sometimes, but that I wouldn’t let them pass themselves off as innocent.“
Charles Sobhraj’s plea
Charles Sobhraj answered questions from Lea Salame And Christophe Dechavanne, who co-host the weekly show. The now 78-year-old released a book, I, the Serpent, published by Editions de l’Archipel. Asked on set, he told the reasons for his media coverage after such a scandal. “After finally being granted freedom, I have the right to express myself. There were a lot of accusations. Some are true but many are false, so I wanted to speak my truth” pleaded the one nicknamed “The Serpent”.
A truth that Netflix wanted to stage on the small screen in a series of eight episodes in which Tahar Rahim plays the role of the Serpent, retracing his arrest in India in 1976 through his years in prison. The septuagenarian would have killed 18 people.