Ten years after the death of Jean-Luc Delarue, TF1 broadcast a documentary retracing his life. The opportunity to return to his attitude which had caused controversy during a flight in 2007.
On the night of February 13 to 14, 2007, Jean-Luc Delarue provoked a controversy because of his behavior. Indeed, the emblematic host of French television had boarded Air France flight 990 to connect Paris to Johannesburg, South Africa. Under the influence of a mixture of alcohol and drugshe quickly got out of control and had to be handcuffed until landing.
Dressed in a jogging outfit and barefoot, Jean Delarue’s father had left aside his image of the “ideal son-in-law“. On board the plane, he had wandered in the central aisle before having an execrable behavior. He had moreover not hesitated to pinch the buttocks members of the Algerian women’s football team. After that, he did the same with the flight attendants, going as far as slap and bite the stewards and hostesses trying to calm him down. Having become uncontrollable, Jean-Luc Delarue had finally been handcuffed to his seatuntil landing where he was met by the police.
Jean-Luc Delarue tried and sentenced to complete a citizenship course
After the skid of Jean-Luc Delarue, the members of the Algerian women’s football team had said: “He very quickly went into a delirium. He was drunk to death, he couldn’t stand up. He came and went with bizarre, obscene gestures. His wife also came to see us to look at the photos we had taken of him and to apologize for his attitude, telling us that we had to understand him, that he was afraid of flying and that he had not tolerated a mixture of alcohol and drugs“.
Eventually, the TV host had been taken into custodye for nine hours in order to respond to the three complaints lodged against him by the flight crew. He had then been judged at the court of Bobigny and found guilty of “violence and insults against people in charge of a public service mission and attempted obstruction of air traffic“. Eventually, the man who would later be stricken with cancer had been condemned to carry out a course of citizenship of three days.
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Jean-Luc Delarue arrives at the Bobigny Criminal Court, accompanied by his lawyer to appear for his misconduct during a Paris – Johannesburg flight, February 13, 2007.
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Back-to-school press conference for the France 2 channel at the Rond Point theatre.
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Back-to-school press conference for the France Télévisions group.
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France Télévisions back-to-school press conference, September 3, 2010.
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Recording of the program “Vivement dimanche”.
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Jean-Luc Delarue arrives at the France Télévisions back-to-school press conference in September 2010 in Paris.
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Jean-Luc Delarue and Nagui
Ceremony of the 25ᵉ Victoires de la Musique 2010 at the Zenith.
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Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Luc Delarue and his partner Anissa Khel
Dior Homme “A Soldier on my Own” Ready-to-wear collection fall-winter 2012/2013 fashion show at the Paris tennis club, January 21, 2012.
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Jean-Luc Delarue and Ines Sastre
36th birthday of Ines Sastre at the Peruvian restaurant “Astrid y Gaston” in Madrid.
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Jean-Luc Delarue and his partner Anissa Khel
Dior Homme “A Soldier on my Own” Ready-to-wear collection fall-winter 2012/2013 fashion show at the Paris tennis club, January 21, 2012.