On October 3, the famous journalist Jean-Pierre Elkabbach died at the age of 86. If he had been fighting the disease since 2019, the BFMTV channel revealed that the state of health of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach had deteriorated in recent weeks before also mentioning a bad fall.
Very quickly, personalities from the world of media rushed to pay tribute to the journalist with a very successful career who worked on television and radio. Starting with Léa Salamé who published a moving message to salute her outstanding working methods. It was then the turn of his journalist friend Alain Duhamel to mourn his disappearance live on BFMTV. Without forgetting Michel Drucker who recalled that Jean-Pierre Elkabbach the best political journalist of his generation.
The funeral of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach took place on October 6, 2023 in Paris, at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, in the presence of his family, and a number of news professionals. A sad and solemn moment during which we could see his daughter, the actress Emmanuelle Bach, collapsed.
Guillaume Durant discusses the “flaws” of his friend Jean-Pierre Elkabbach
The day after the funeral of the star of political interviews, tributes continue to pour in and tongues are loosened. This Friday, October 13, 2023, journalist Guillaume Durand was invited to the microphone of South Radio and was also invited to remember the famous journalist who died. The opportunity for him to make an unexpected clarification: “Now that this funeral has passed, I must say that, having worked with him, he was passionate, in a way a model but with faults. It was still something that I did not never practiced, I never accepted the aspect of total cohesion with the political world” he said.
And to continue: “That didn’t stop him from being independent but he dined with them as if he were an RPR deputy with Chirac and a socialist deputy with Mitterand… it wasn’t quite my type”. This is what is said.
“Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, lived news?”@guillaum_durand : “Now that these funerals have passed, I must say that, having worked with him, he was passionate, in a way a model but with faults: I never accepted the cohesion side… pic.twitter.com/rkMgX5zs8O
— Sud Radio (@SudRadio) October 13, 2023
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