00:00 Died of Gerard Leclerc, a relative confessed on the last hours of the journalist.
00:05 Gerard Leclerc died on August 15.
00:11 The day before, he shared a meal with a chronicler of CNOO.
00:15 The latter comes back on this moment.
00:19 On August 15, journalist Gerard Leclerc died in a plane crash that he was piloting.
00:28 He went with two of his friends to the concert of his half-brother Julien Clerc,
00:32 which took place two days later in La Balle.
00:35 A terrible tragedy for many of his colleagues.
00:41 Among them, Paul Melin, essayist and colleague of Gerard Leclerc, on CNOO.
00:47 On Twitter, he then told his last meal shared with the journalist.
00:55 "Yesterday evening I ate dinner at your house Gerard in this country of the Odin that you loved and of which you taught me everything.
01:00 Your smile, your sweet and calm face with something reassuring.
01:08 You showed us, to my family and me, these Chinese objects in your barn,
01:12 this agricultural genius that you knew by heart, I was moved," he wrote.
01:20 "At some point, learning the terrible news, Paul Melin collapsed. I don't want to believe it.
01:25 This poisoned arrow hurts too much.
01:30 You told me you were coming to lunch at the house on Wednesday with Julie and your friend Patrick.
01:35 With my mom we had gone shopping and were preparing the five armchairs in the garden.
01:45 Tonight, by giving back what I had prepared for you, tears fall on my cheek.
01:50 I know that tomorrow you will not be there."
01:55 The painful words of Paul Melin for Gerard Leclerc.
01:58 The chronicler concludes, "In the sky of my village tonight, I see your simple and delicate gaze.
02:06 I hear your words say, 'We will cry. Goodbye Gerard.'
02:13 The words of Paul Melin for Gerard Leclerc.
02:16 Now, the time of the investigation has come.
02:21 And the investigations will be laborious.
02:24 The judicial investigation enters a complex and long-term phase,
02:30 of analysis of all the technical data collected or in the process of collection,
02:35 both on the flight, on the aircraft, and on its pilot,
02:38 had she explained two days earlier in the columns of the dispatch.
02:43 According to Marie-Céline Loubarès, Gerard Leclerc had not issued any distress message.
02:49 message de détresse.
