It’s an ordeal he won’t soon forget. A successful television and radio host in the 80s, Patrick Sabatier was faced with the downside of fame. At a time when social networks and their share of excesses, such as insults and threats, did not yet exist, it was directly at his home that the flagship face of TF1 experienced the worst: a kidnapping by a man armed.
And “sad memory” that he tells Éric Dussart and Jade on the show’s microphone We’re doing TV again on RTL, this Saturday October 12. “I didn’t think it was a hidden camera at all,” explains the man who hosted Avis de recherche, Atout Cœur and Le Jeu de la vérité. “There was someone who said to me ‘you get in the car’, he knew I was going to RTL”.
“Others had also been kidnapped”
Quickly, Patrick Sabatier understands that his attacker is not after his money: “Under threat, he asked me to take such and such a singer in such and such a show, otherwise he would burn down my apartment.” “Was it to put pressure on you to receive artists?” Eric Dussart is indignant. “We come to this, we take you away…” The 72-year-old author recalls that at “this period”he was “under close protection”: “I was not the only one. Others had also been kidnapped.”
As to whether his attacker “was someone from the entertainment world”, he answers: “No, not even. It was someone who wanted to get someone through. I wasn’t the only one and it took place over several months. After me, there were other people ( ….
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