Journalist Fanny Agostini revealed on Monday to be at the origin of the complaint for “attempted sexual assault” filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin, in Mediapart which collects other testimonies, some identified, others anonymous, targeting the famous host .
An investigation was entrusted by the Paris prosecutor’s office to the 16th arrondissement police station and an internal investigation was opened by Altice, parent company of BFMTV and RMC.
Former RMC-BFMTV weather presenter, who later went through Thalassa, Fanny Agostini gives her version of events in Mediapart dating back to 2013, when she participated in the Calvi Petanque Open in Corsica, where Jean-Jacques Bourdin is also I agreed.
One morning, she swims in the hotel pool. Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have approached “very quickly”, would have “grabbed her by the neck, on the side”, and would have “drawn her towards him suddenly” while trying to kiss her “several times”. “Taking lessons”, she says she did not “scream”, but “struggled” and managed to get out of the water.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, can we read in Mediapart, would then have launched to him: “I always get what I want”. A sentence that “punctuated (his) nightmares for years”. And that Fanny Agostini says she experienced “like a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendancy”.
She then assures that between September 2014 and spring 2015, the host sent her, in the midst of professional exchanges, many messages with a sexual connotation. Like that of November 27, 2014, which Mediapart says it has obtained, received on its professional email: “You tempt me every morning … I like your look”. Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not respond to Mediapart, which says it asked for all the testimonies.
Journalist Sidonie Bonnec, host on France 2 and France Bleu, also testifies in Mediapart.
A young journalist wishing to do radio, she was invited to a festival in Calvi by Jean-Jacques Bourdin in 2010. The host, according to the words of the young woman, assured her that she would be staying at a hotel. But before leaving, he would have called to tell him that the hotel is full and that by “chance”, he “has a villa with a friend”. He would have added: “There is a swimming pool, do not forget your swimsuit”. “This sentence cut my legs off”, she told Mediapart, “it was no longer professional at all”.
Arriving at the airport with her companion, she says she saw Jean-Jacques Bourdin who would have been content to send them a greeting “from afar”. “After that, I never heard from anyone again. Obviously I never got the job,” she says.