Nathalie Renoux and Julien Courbet co-host Call for Witnesses, on M6. – Charlotte DEFARGES / AGENCY 1827 / M6
M6 presented the program as a “last-ditch operation” for unsolved cases. Call for witnesses, launched Monday evening, was followed by 2.6 million people on average (13.1% audience share), allowing the channel to take second place in the evening’s audiences behind Bound for life, TF1’s unreleased TV movie watched by 4.2 million people (19% PDA).
This Tuesday morning, M6 specifies that its live magazine is the leader among the under 35s with 25% audience share and adds to have recorded a peak at 3 million viewers.
The main objective ofCall for witnesses was to appeal to the memory of the public in order to invite them to communicate any useful element allowing to advance the investigations into the disappearances of Lucas Tronche and Suzanne Bourlier and the murder of Gaëlle Fosset.
“If everything interests us, everything will be exploited”
Some 400 calls were received Monday evening M6 announcement – during the direct, at the end of the show around 11:12 pm, “more than 320 calls” had been recorded. A little earlier, at 9.45 p.m., co-host Julien Courbet announced that 90 calls had ended at the switchboard and that twenty of them had been taken into account by the police and gendarmerie officials mobilized around this telephone cell.
“Some people leave us their contact details, we will call them back very quickly, from this evening, from tomorrow. There are interesting elements that will have to be exploited, even a lot. We have others arriving by email. Perhaps at the time, some had not dared to speak or had not thought that the element could be interesting. If everything interests us, everything will be exploited, ”said in the wake of Camille Chaize, spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, at the head of the appeals unit.
A little later, about the Gaëlle Fosset affair, she let it be known that “calls from Normandy, from where the victim was from” should be able to be exploited. And to add: “I think there are days or even weeks of work and that’s all we ask. “
Monday evening, according to the spokesperson for the Interior, in addition to the calls, 150 testimonial emails were received via the [email protected] email address. The hotline (0 800 10 11 21) remains in place until June 14.