Héloïse Goy with Alexis Patri 10:22 a.m., February 10, 2022
The previous season of Koh Lanta had been marred by several cheating scandals.
The new season of the TF1 adventure game, whose broadcast will begin on February 22, is this time talking about it because of the controversial profile of a candidate, revealed by our colleagues from the weekly "Le canard enchainé ".
If you missed the scandals and cheating twists of the last season, the new season of Koh Lanta, titled "the cursed totem", should not disappoint you.
A new controversy is already tainting TF1's flagship program, when it will only return to the air from February 22.
The chained duck
revealed on Wednesday that a candidate for the next season of the game is indicted for manslaughter.
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This is Commander François, a 38-year-old professional firefighter.
The facts concern a forest fire in 2016 in Hérault, which claimed the life of a firefighter.
Following this death, seven firefighters who were on site, including the candidate from Koh Lanta, were indicted.
According to
Le canard enchaîné
, all are suspected of having given the troop unsuitable, sometimes contradictory orders, and provided insufficient training and obsolete equipment.
Information covered by the secrecy of the instruction, according to the production
For its part, Adventure Line Production, the producer of Koh-Lanta, assured the magazine
Here
that they were not informed of this indictment.
They specify that this information, covered by the secrecy of the instruction, was not public.
The production also recalls that this candidate is presumed innocent.
No change in the date of return to the antenna of Koh Lanta: the kickoff of the season of the "cursed totem" is expected on Tuesday, February 22 at 9:10 p.m., on TF1.