Christophe Dechavanne will be judged in recurrence for drug driving. The ex-star of the PAF risks prison and heavy fine after a positive cocaine control in August 2024.
Flagship host of the 1990s on TF1 with Heaven my Tuesday! And Hello it’s us!influential producer, Christophe Dechavanne lives a second youth on public service as a permanent guest of What an era!the program of the second part of the evening, presented by Léa Salamé on France 2. But the comeback of the 67-year-old TV man could be marred by his legal troubles.
Christophe Dechavanne is due to appear this Thursday, February 20, in the afternoon, before the Criminal Court of Moulins, in Allier. The old PAF star is deemed in recurrence for “driving a vehicle having used substances or plants classified as narcotics”.
The facts date back to August 17, 2024. That day, in the town of Toulon-sur-Allier, the gendarmes of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron lead a road control operation on the occasion of the extended weekend of the August 15. Christophe Dechavanne is then controlled positive at cocaine at the wheel of his car, while it was circulating at 120 km/h instead of the 80 km/h authorized on this portion of the RN7, indicate several local press titles like the independent .
Christophe Dechavanne: “I know very well what reputation I had in Paris”
The accusation of recurrence is linked to similar facts in the past, indicate the same sources, as well as Liberation. The animator faces up to 4,500 euros fine, the withdrawal of his driving license but also 2 years in prison. A blow for the one whose great media return seemed to be well engaged. This Saturday, February 22, it’s a best-of of What an era! which will be offered to viewers of France 2 and it was necessary to feed a rumor of sidelining Christophe Dechavanne. Fabienne Barollier, delegated director of the magazines de France Télévisions, had to go up to the niche to indicate that the replay was simply linked to the leave of Léa Salamé, on vacation this week.
Christophe Dechavanne was able to be very sharp concerning the insistent rumors circulating for years on his consumption of narcotics. During the release in January 2024 of his autobiography “without transition”, at Flammarion editions, he even explained it: “I know very well what reputation I had in Paris. I know who made him run The first time, and I went to tell him that it had to stop.
A way to deny any drug use? The ex-animator had also drawn himself at length on his childhood marked by the alcoholism of his father Jean-Pierre, who died at 54 years old. “Do not drop someone who has a concern with alcohol, it’s a real disease,” he concluded, calling for not stigmatizing people with addiction.
This new trial for cocaine consumption therefore appears to be a revelation, only a few months after the Dechavanne confessions on its past. The verdict should fall into the wake of Thursday’s hearing. A heavy sanction could come to weaken the return in grace of Christophe Dechavanne and begin his credibility, when he finally seemed to have got rid of his sulphurous reputation.