Christophe Hondelatte does not have time to be unemployed! Specializing in news items for several years, the journalist aroused passions by previously hosting “Bring in the accused” on the second channel. To date, the main interested party takes pleasure in shining on “Europe 1” with “Hondelatte Raconte”. An essential storyteller, the journalist constantly keeps his listeners spellbound with his fascinating stories centered… On crimes. “I fell into the news item a little by chance”, confessed the latter for “Current Woman” in 2022.
Tragic stories, moving testimonies, Christophe Hondelatte has never stopped peeling them for his work. “I did 150 episodes of Bring in the Accused. I met 150 families of victims in the flesh. I interviewed them all,” added the main interested party. And to add: “Having in front of you a mother whose little girl has been raped, killed, cut into pieces and thrown into a well… it marks. You can only have empathy when you see people”.
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“I can’t be a serial killer…”
This Thursday, May 11, 2023, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine had the honor of welcoming him on the set of “C à vous”. Neither one nor two, the host took the opportunity to ask him about countless cases that may have marked him. During their exchange, the host even wanted to know more about the profile of the serial-killers. “There is no identification process”, underlined his interlocutor. “I can’t be a serial killer, I’m sure of it, we’re all sure of it. It’s not the same…”
“The person next to me a priori is not a serial killer”, assured not without humor the wife of Philippe Coelho. For Christophe Hondelatte, any human being can go wrong because of an event: “So a well-placed rifle shot, a poison, maybe we can do it.”“Can you do it Christophe?”, inquired Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, intrigued. “That is to say that we thought about it… Me, I thought about it anyway”, affirmed his colleague before adding convinced: “You too! I know you! I’m sure you did one day, you thought about it: ‘Fuck that one…”. “Yes OK”, recognized Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. “Obviously there is the ‘I’m going to kill him’, and the passage to the act”, clarified his guest of the day. Phew!
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