CHRISTIAN QUESADA. Christian Quesada spoke for the first time on the case that affects him, in a documentary broadcast on C8, this Thursday, October 27. Unsurprisingly, he minimized the facts, and made it clear that he was not a “criminal”, but a “delinquent”.
[Mis à jour le 27 octobre 2022 à 23h03] Christian Quesada came out of the silence. The ex-champion of the 12 noon shots spoke for the first time on the case which affects him in a documentary broadcast on C8, this Thursday, October 27, 2022. “The facts for which I was indicted , which is called the corruption of a minor, it’s called a crime. I am not a criminal, I am a delinquent”, insisted on specifying Christian Quesada, minimizing the facts of which he is accused.
The former 12-stroke champion then addressed the four complaints filed against him by four young underage women, once again appearing to play down the facts for which he was accused: “The facts I recognized, I paid heavily. I didn’t I don’t need to go back over the humanly harm that I may have done to the four people concerned. Especially two, but we won’t go into the details.” And to estimate: “There are two people who are a little more victims than [les] two others.” Christian Quesada then spoke about his family situation, explaining that his “children were forced to change their name”, and to “change region”.
Christian Quesada has also indicated that he was the target of a complaint from a director who had bought the rights to his autobiography to adapt it to the cinema, following his success in 12 noon shots. “He is asking for damages for the loss of profit he could have had on potential entries. He even manages to quantify them. And he filed a complaint for that, you realize how much we are walking on our heads !”, did he declare.
As a reminder, Christian Quesada de midi was sentenced in 2020 to three years in prison for corruption of a minor as well as for possession of child pornography images. He was later granted parole and released from prison in March 2021, after two years behind bars. Relapsed into anonymity, he was arrested in September 2022 for non-compliance with his socio-judicial follow-up and placed in detention in Perpignan prison. After 22 days of incarceration, he was released from prison on October 19.
Christian Quesada was born in 1964 in the Hauts-de-Seine department. He was 22 years old when he participated in his first game show, in 1986: it was Numbers and letters on France 2, at the time Antenne 2. To date, Christian Quesada remains the only player to have won at both the Champions Cup, the Masters and the Clubs Cup. After these remarkable passages, he will participate over the years in other programs: the Grand Special Contest for TV game champions but also Le Plus grand Quiz de France.
It was in 2016 that Christian Quesada stood out to the general public: while he was unemployed, he became the champion of 12 Coups de midi on TF1. This single father of two children will participate in 193 shows and will accumulate 809,392 euros in winnings and gifts, a record for the program presented by Jean-Luc Reichmann, which has not yet been beaten. He will finally be eliminated in January 2017 and becomes one of the biggest game show winners in France.
In 2019, Christian Quesada was indicted and detained for corruption of minors and possession and dissemination of child pornography images. He was sentenced in April 2020 to three years in prison and five years of socio-judicial follow-up. The former fallen TV candidate is released on March 25, 2021. He would have changed his look and left his life department to fall back into anonymity.
Between 2001 and 2009, Christian Quesada will have to deal several times with justice: he is condemned on numerous occasions for corruption of minor, sexual exhibition and detention and diffusion of child pornography images. The game show champion was also sentenced in 2017 for “aggravated pimping attempt”.
However, it was in 2019 that the “Christian Quesada affair” broke out. Following a complaint from a minor, an investigation began at the end of 2017. On March 27, 2019, the ex-champion was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention. The police discovered thousands of child pornography images and videos on his computer. In May 2019, the 50-year-old admits, through the voice of his lawyer, to being attracted to teenage girls, but not to children. His lawyer will admit that the former Master of Midi “assumes what he has done” and tries to justify the possession of child pornography images, advancing “fantasies without any desire to take action”.
Christian Quesada was imprisoned from March 2019 to March 2021. On April 8, 2020, Christian Quesada was found guilty of “corruption of minors” and “possession and dissemination of child pornography”. He was sentenced by the correctional court of Bourg en Bresse to three years in prison and five years of socio-judicial follow-up. If he does not respect the socio-judicial follow-up, he will have to return to prison for three years. Christian Quesada was released in March 2021 after two years spent in the Bourg-en-Bresse detention center as part of a conditional release measure.
According to Midi Libre, Quesada had left Ain to settle in the Perpignan region. In September 2022, Christian Quesada was arrested following non-compliance with his obligation of socio-judicial follow-up to which he was nevertheless subject in the context of his parole. In fact, the former star of 12 noon shots on TF1 is again placed in detention in the Perpignan penitentiary center while his parole is canceled.
Christian Quesada participated for the first time in the 12 noon shots on July 4, 2016. To this day, he remains the greatest champion of the TF1 show: he remained Maître de midi until January 2017, and combines with him only 193 participations. No other Noon Master has done better than Christian Quesada at the time of writing. He was nicknamed “The Professor” by Jean-Luc Reichmann. Following the accusations against the ex-champion, the TF1 presenter said he felt “disgust” and “anger”, adding that Quesada was now deleted from the show’s archives.
How much did Christian Quesada earn? Christian Quesada is one of the great champions of the 12 noon shots. In total, he collected 809 euros in winnings and gifts. This sum is still a record for the TF1 broadcast today.
Christian Quesada was married to a woman, a certain Emilie, who preferred to remain anonymous. The couple had two children, before divorcing in May 2012, four years after they said yes.