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JUSTICE – Journalist Fanny Agostini reveals this Monday, February 14, to be at the origin of the complaint for “attempted sexual assault” filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdinin Mediapart which collects other testimonies, some identified, others anonymous, targeting the famous host.
Jean Jacques Bourdin temporarily removed from the air on BFMTV and RMCdenies the facts of which he is accused Fanny Agostini.
An investigation was entrusted by the public prosecutor’s office to Paris at the 16th arrondissement police station and an internal investigation was opened by Altice, parent company of BFMTV and RMC.
Former weather presenter of RMC-BFMTV, then passed by ThalassaFanny Agostini gives in Mediapart his version of events dating back to 2013when she took part in the Calvi Petanque Open in Corsica, where Jean-Jacques Bourdin was also invited.
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.
“You tempt me every morning… I love your look”
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, can we read in Mediapart, would then have launched: “I always get what I want”. A phrase that “has 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, that Mediapart says he got it, received on his professional email: “You tempt me every morning… I like your look”. Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not respond to Mediapartwho says he asked for it on 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 reportedly added: “There’s a swimming pool, don’t forget your bathing suit.” “That sentence cut my legs off,” she told Mediapart“it was no longer professional at all”.
Arrived at the airport with her companion, she recounts having seen 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 underlines.
See also on The HuffPost: RMC: Bourdin confirms his departure from the morning live