His works often focused on high profile cases, including the Swissair Flight 111 and the Order of the Solar Temple.
Other books of his covered Pope Francis and the disappearance of French TV host Philippe de Dieuleveult [fr].
[1] In 1983 he was featured on the game show La Course autour du monde [fr], where he interviewed the brother of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse.
[3] Alongside journalists Gilles Bouleau and Bernard Nicolas, he wrote a 1996 book on the OTS case, Les Chevaliers de la mort.
[1][3] In 2004, Bédat was fined 4,000 Swiss francs for violating the right to privacy of a motorist (who had killed three people and injured eight) by publishing an article the prior year revealing secret documents relevant to the case.
The European Court of Human Rights eventually ruled this a violation of freedom of expression and the Swiss government was ordered to pay Bédat €5000.
[4] In 2022, a fictionalized version of him was a major character in the long-running French comic Lefranc [fr], in the issue Le scandale Arès.