The Outreau affair (France 2): Christophe Hondelatte is offended on Twitter

“In France today, in 2023, we don’t need to do this huge retrospective around the Outreau affair”. Andréa Bescond is categorical. Tuesday January 17, 2023, the author of the book Les Tickles went to the set of The guest on TV5 World. Faced with Patrick Simonin, she expressed her dismay following the broadcast of The Outreau affaira four-part docu-drama about the pedophile and legal scandal that rocked the early 2000s. “I think the angle is wrong”she clarified. “If it’s about the angle of a legal fiasco and the lies poured out by children, I don’t think [la série, ndlr] be healthy. On the contrary, everything is still there to discredit the voice of children”, she insisted. Then add: “There are still a dozen victims, about fifty children whose complaints have been dismissed. Who raped these children?”

The docu-fiction on the Outreau affair is not unanimous

Obviously, this umpteenth project on the Outreau affair is not unanimous. Worn by Agnès Pizzini and Olivier Ayache-Vidal for France Télévisions, he nevertheless tried to give voice to all sides. Child victims and victims of justice, embodied in this trial by judge Fabrice Burgaud, agreed to testify in front of the cameras of France 2. Jonathan Delay, who played the game during filming, was very disappointed with the rendering. So much so that after viewing the first two episodes, he called for a boycott of the program in the columns of Parisian. The first devoted to placement in a foster home “Sheriff, 10, Dimitri, 8, Jonathan, 6, and Dylan, 4” and the second to the presumed existence of a pedophilia network linked to Belgium, did not convince the young man. He pointed to a documentary that demonstrates a “total bias in favor of the acquitted”, all in “despising the words of children, twelve of whom have been recognized as victims of sexual abuse”. An observation shared by Andréa Bescond.

Christophe Hondelatte: “The others are innocent and the children lied”

But if Jonathan Delay and Andréa Bescond seem to share the same opinion, the story is quite different on the side of Christophe Hondelatte. The radio presenter, who is at the controls ofHondelatte Tells, has a different view of things. On Twitter, Tuesday January 24, 2023, he reacted to comments made by Andréa Bescond on TV5 World. “Mind-blowing judicial revisionism”he exclaimed after seeing the video clip in which the author shares her point of view. “Four people raped the children. The others are innocent and the children lied”, he adds. Before concluding his speech with: “Johnathan Delay tells it very well in this great series”. As a reminder, on January 30, 2008, Christophe Hondelatte returned exhaustively to the Outreau affair in an episode of Let the accused enter entitled “The Judge and the Liar”. A report which, like the documentary of France 2is mainly interested in the acquitted, with the common theme of the psychological portrait of Myriam Badaoui.