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Saturday February 11, 2023, Léa Salamé received Charles Sobhraj, alias "Le Serpent", in her program "Quelle époque!", broadcast in the second part of the evening on France 2. In an interview with "Puremedias", the journalist, criticized for this controversial choice, admits having had "doubts".
Saturday, February 11, 2023, Léa Salamé received Charles Sobhraj alias "The Serpent" in his program
Quelle époque!.
Suspected of having committed around twenty murders in Asia in the 1970s, the septuagenarian was sentenced in Nepal in 2004 to life imprisonment for the murders of American tourist Connie Joe Bronzich and his Canadian friend Laurent Carrière, in 1975.
The serial killer was released by the Supreme Court of Nepal on December 21 because of his health problems, then he was repatriated to France.
Since then, he has continued to proclaim his innocence.
“He served his sentence”
In an interview granted to
Puremedias
on Saturday February 25, 2023, Léa Salamé justified herself on this controversial choice.
"I'm not going to lie to you, I had doubts," she says.
"It's not easy. Nevertheless, the guy spent half his life in prison. He served his sentence".
She also points out that the interview was broadcast at 1 a.m., at the very end of the program, while TF1, she points out, had offered an interview with Charles Sohbraj much earlier, at 7 p.m., in Seven to
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"You can't take in a serial killer and make him a star"
Among those who had most strongly criticized this invitation: Christophe Hondelatte.
“We cannot receive a serial killer, and make a star out of it,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
"And do you know where I got this moral from? From France 2, and from my passage in
Let the accuser in
," then concluded the host.