The descent into hell continues for the former great champion of the 12 noon shots. According to information from Midi Libre this Tuesday, September 27, Christian Quesada was again arrested and placed in detention in the penitentiary center of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales). Sentenced in 2020 to three years in prison by the correctional court of Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) for acts of corruption of minors and possession and dissemination of child pornography images, the 58-year-old man finally obtained conditional release. in March 2021, and chose to settle in the Perpignan region to find calm and anonymity. He had also undergone a total physical transformation. He would have let his hair and beard grow, in addition to having taken the time to redo his teeth.
However, the former TV star would not have respected the obligation of socio-judicial follow-up to which he was subject. This system has been put in place for sex offenders and criminals, generally providing for an obligation of care, or a ban on seeing minors. This Monday, September 26, the sentence enforcement judge of Perpignan then decided to revoke this conditional release, and ordered his imprisonment.
The story of Christian Quesada had everything of a fairy tale. A single father, unemployed and in the open, he appeared for the first time on Jean-Luc Reichmann’s game set on July 4, 2016. Since then, the fifty-year-old has kept his title of Maître de midi for 193 shows in a row. , managing to accumulate a pot of 809,302 euros in winnings and gifts.
Having become one of the biggest winners in TV games in terms of earnings and cumulative presence in a single show, Christian Quesada multiplies his appearances on the small screen to tell his story and his incredible rise thanks to the TF1 show. In 2017, he decided to tell his story through an autobiography entitled Le Maître de midi.