Christophe Hondelatte podcasts and interviews

Hondelatte Raconte

In 2000, a family complaint sparks a police raid, a night in custody and months behind bars for a small-town mayor.

Nov 8, 2026 13:02 7 min read 5 views

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A 15-year legal fight over a child's accusation, from pretrial detention to a retraction and an acquittal in Lyon.

Nov 8, 2026 13:44 8 min read 6 views

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Based on disputed medical findings, a 2000 child abuse accusation against a French mayor took 15 years to unravel.

Nov 8, 2026 17:17 14 min read 6 views

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A couple vanishes near Mulhouse in 1996 after carrying cash to a pizzeria meeting, and police soon turn to the owner.

Nov 7, 2026 13:12 9 min read 5 views

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A 1996 double murder in Haut-Rhin turns on conflicting confessions, a pizzeria reconstruction and two trials with different…

Nov 7, 2026 13:40 8 min read 6 views

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In 1996 a couple vanished in Haut-Rhin with cash, after lunch at a pizzeria whose owner was linked to an earlier killing.

Nov 7, 2026 09:30 8 min read 0 views

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East Germans pour through the Berlin Wall in November 1989, as borders open and a communist regime starts to crack.

Nov 6, 2026 40:25 27 min read 0 views

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A canal crash in Belgium and a cliff fall in Corsica, three years apart, that investigators only later connected.

Nov 6, 2026 11:35 7 min read 0 views

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Two car crashes in Belgium and Corsica in the late 1990s hid a suspected murder plot that took investigators years to see.

Nov 6, 2026 17:33 11 min read 0 views

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Autopsy details, a jury's split verdict and a missed first inquiry: how a Belgian murder case was finally pieced together.

Nov 6, 2026 10:20 8 min read 0 views

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A free Bastille concert and a royalist counter-protest show how divided France was over its 1989 bicentennial.

Nov 5, 2026 42:50 31 min read 0 views

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A 1987 dump discovery in eastern France sparks a decades-long hunt for answers and a suspect who may have been innocent.

Nov 5, 2026 15:22 9 min read 0 views

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A 1987 landfill discovery in Lorraine, a forensic DNA twist and an acquittal that the victim's family still challenges.

Nov 5, 2026 13:11 11 min read 0 views

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A 1989 hit song sparks a plagiarism lawsuit, while a Tour de France final time trial is decided by eight seconds.

Nov 4, 2026 40:44 29 min read 0 views

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A 2016 car crash near Bordeaux becomes a murder confession, and a chain of online gaming romances begins to unravel.

Nov 4, 2026 13:37 8 min read 0 views

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A fatal 2016 crash near Bordeaux turns into a murder trial as two accident experts clash over a single claim.

Nov 4, 2026 20:19 10 min read 0 views

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A 2016 road death in Izon turned on a dispute over vehicle speed, with a second expert report reversing the first.

Nov 4, 2026 11:28 9 min read 0 views

L'Heure Du Crime

A distant cousin's DNA can lead investigators to a killer, but genetic genealogy also raises big privacy questions.

Nov 4, 2026 17:31 15 min read 0 views

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A psychologist's therapy sessions hid years of abuse, and the case file reveals how his patients were drawn in.

Nov 3, 2026 19:43 13 min read 0 views

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A psychologist's two decades of alleged abuse of patients, and the repeated convictions that did not stop him.

Nov 3, 2026 20:25 13 min read 0 views

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From Tiananmen's crackdown to a cramp-fuelled upset at Roland-Garros, a look back at the turbulent year 1989.

Nov 3, 2026 43:07 29 min read 0 views

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A London romance with a Saudi prince turns into a nightmare, as a secret and an alleged forced abortion unfold.

Nov 3, 2026 13:43 8 min read 0 views

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A royal romance ends in a custody battle over a daughter held in Saudi Arabia, and a family's search for answers.

Nov 3, 2026 13:38 13 min read 0 views

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A look back at 1989: Hurricane Hugo's destruction, the TGV Atlantique's launch and Batman's marketing blitz.

Nov 2, 2026 41:10 28 min read 0 views

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A surprise 1997 move to dissolve parliament backfired when the left won the snap election that followed.

Nov 2, 2026 15:40 9 min read 0 views

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A snap election called in 1997 handed the French left a surprise win and launched five years of political cohabitation.

Nov 2, 2026 19:03 17 min read 0 views

LEGEND

Staged car accidents, a disputed execution and a submarine murder: the crime cases that shaped a French true-crime career.

Nov 1, 2026 01:24:28 69 min read 5 views