“He was a talented interviewer who went into battle,” salutes Marc-Olivier Fogiel

“I am very sad about the disappearance of Jean-Pierre”indicates Tuesday October 3 on franceinfo Marc-Olivier Fogiel, general director of BFMTV, after the death of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. “In fact, I presented the morning show on Europe 1 between 2008 and 2011 and Jean-Pierre, who had been boss until that time, did the political interview at 8:20 a.m.”he explains.

“Every morning I saw him with Stabilos and like a child stressed before each interview, feverish each time, wanting to overflow every day”continues Marc-Olivier Fogiel. “I really saw Jean-Pierre as a beginner playing his title every morning, absolutely wanting to bring out each time the little sentence that would make the news of the day. He was very proud when he managed to bring out the sentence that was going to set the ‘LA’ of the day’s news”.

“He was a talented interviewer who went to fights and put on boxing gloves every day because he wanted to create some sort of tension every time.”

Marc-Olivier Fogiel, journalist and general director of BFMTV

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According to Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Jean-Pierre Elkkabach “I wish every morning to find the little sentence that disconcerts” his interlocutor and wanted “every time take the advantage with the first sentence”.

“What I admire about him is that he managed channels, France Télévisions, Europe 1” and if “we remember the animator-producer affair and its complicated exit, what I remember is the audacity”with this famous word “Let’s dare” which was “caricatured by the Guignols” but “he disrupted the public service by perhaps giving a lot of money, too much money to the presenter producers but he dared to do things”.