This Wednesday, November 6, Michel Denisot was the guest of Sud Radio. He gave news of Charles Biétry, the former sports director of Canal + suffering from Charcot disease.
Michel Denisot was interested in his latest book Very first time to personalities who started on Canal +. By giving them the floor, he looks back on the history of the channel and their own journey. This Wednesday, November 6, the former presenter of Grand Journal was invited to the Sud Radio studios to talk about the release of this book. He took the opportunity to give news of his former collaborators and especially of Charles Biétry. The former sports director of Canal+ announced in April 2023 that he was suffering from Charcot's disease and had planned his assisted suicide in Switzerland.
Michel Denisot reveals he is still in contact with Charles Biétry
The famous host gave news of Charles Biétry and assured to always be in contact with him. “I went to see him a month ago in Carnac. I went to see him with Jean-Claude Darmon and Kimpembe, the PSG player. The three of us left one morning, we spent the morning with him and well listen, he is fighting against a complicated illness which is Charcot's disease. Today, he can almost no longer speak, we don't understand, he has a very complicated speech problem and has difficulty moving around.“, began Michel Denisot. However, he gives good news about his former colleague. “He has a youthful eye and he fights… Really very admiring of his fight because it is an illness from which there is no cure for the moment and that's it. I talk with him, he can text, so I talk with him very often, we take care. For example, this evening there is a PSG match, around 7 p.m., I will send him my prediction, he will send me his prediction“, he confided.
Grégoire Margotton evokes the fight of Charles Biétry
Michel Denisot is not the only one to still be in contact with Charles Biétry. A few months ago, Grégoire Margotton, who started at Canal+ as an intern and who worked with the channel's former sports director, gave his news. “Me, I try not to be sad. He manages to remain dignified until the end, magnificently accompanied by his wife. What is happening to him is a horror, but I would have been lucky to have reached another level of relationship with him. Which are no longer professional at all, but really in the simplest emotional way. For that alone, this period will not only leave me with a memory marked by sorrow“, he declared.
