Europe 1 with AFP 9:44 p.m., October 06, 2022

Former game show candidate Christian Quesada, sentenced in April 2020 for child pornography, will be released from prison at the end of October, after a month of imprisonment in Perpignan.

He had been released in 2021 but reincarcerated in September because he was inactive in the search for work.

The ex-champion of television games Christian Quesada, convicted of child pornography, and imprisoned again last month for non-compliance with socio-judicial monitoring, should be released from prison at the end of October, we learned Thursday from the prosecution of Perpignan.

While he was on parole in the Pyrénées-Orientales where he now resides, Christian Quesada was once again imprisoned on September 27, because "he is not active in looking for work", specified to AFP the public prosecutor of Perpignan, Jean-David Cavaillé.

A release scheduled for October 27 at the latest

After a month in Perpignan prison, he should be released on October 27, "or before" because "he can benefit from a reduced sentence", said the prosecutor, after his presentation Thursday before a judge. enforcement of penalties.

Christian Quesada was imprisoned on March 27, 2019 after hundreds of images and videos of minors undergoing rape and sexual assault, which he exchanged with other Internet users, were found on his computers.

In April 2020, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Bourg-en-Bresse criminal court for corruption of minors, possession and dissemination of child pornography.

In March 2021, he was released, benefiting from a remission, and had to respect the obligations of his socio-judicial follow-up.

The Quesada affair had erupted with the complaint of a young underage girl who explained that she had dialogued on the Internet with a man posing as a boy who asked him to send him photos of her naked, and made him overtly sexual proposals. .

Nicknamed "the professor", Christian Quesada had marked the viewers by chaining nearly 200 participations in the program "Les 12 coups de midi", six months during.

This allowed him to pocket 800,000 euros in earnings.