Anne Nivat is honored in Release this Tuesday, February 15, 2022, a media for which she was a correspondent in Moscow in 1998. She is currently in full promotion of her book France in front (published by Fayard), the opportunity to paint his portrait.
The 52-year-old journalist left home after her baccalaureate, at the age of 16. And very quickly, she found her calling: field journalism. In 1999, for example, she covered the war in Chechnya. “She had this rare thing: the courage to go into the field, to tell the detail that hits the mark“, confided one of its former leaders to Release. She also ended up in Afghanistan or Iraq. But journalism is not the only love that won the Albert-Londres prize in 2000.
In 2004, she met the gaze of the man who currently shares her life, in the RMC studio : Jean-Jacques Bourdin. Between them, it was the “Thunderbolt“.”I think they were mutually surprised to find a strong personality that matched them.“said editor Catherine Aflalo. She then raved about her “faithful friend” which is present in good times, as well as bad times. Together, the 72-year-old presenter and Anne Nivat had a son named Louis (born in November 2006). And the journalist highlighted their “fusion couple“. A way no doubt to support her husband who is currently in the midst of controversy. “I am not my husband. (…) Me too, I suffered machismo in the newsrooms, permanently“, she pointed out. She also defended the “wonderful career as a journalist“of his dear and tender.”Of course, the person who wants to impose something on me has not yet been born. I asked my husband to have it engraved in stone, if I die before him: ‘HER. N / A. NEVER. SUFFERED.‘” she concluded.
Recall of facts
As a reminder, Jean-Jacques Bourdin is accused of attempted sexual assault by a woman who worked at RFM and BFMTV at the time. Facts that date back to 2013 and that the main interested party denies. If the woman in question had not wished to reveal her identity at the time when the case came out, the public learned today that it is Fanny Agostini. His complaint was filed Tuesday, January 11 in Paris, at the police station of the XVIth arrondissement. An investigation was entrusted by the Paris prosecutor’s office to the 16th arrondissement police station. It could lead to the finding that the facts are time-barred, since the time limit in this regard is six years, and the complaint dates from January 2022.
Pending the end of the case, Jean-Jacques Bourdin was temporarily removed from the antenna. A decision he regrets. “I regret the unilateral decision of the BFMTV Group and RMC to withdraw me from the antennas to prevent the risk of instrumentalization of the complaint of which I am the subject. I remind you that I dispute the facts with which I am charged and deplore that the principle of the presumption of innocence is ignored“, wrote the journalist in a statement sent to AFP by his lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin remains presumed innocent of the facts of which he is accused until the end of the investigation.