adds reactions from Jean-Jacques Bourdin to Le Parisien and from BFMTV / RMC to AFP at the 8th para
PARIS (awp/afp) – Flagship political journalist of RMC and BFMTV, Jean-Jacques Bourdin is the subject of a complaint filed Tuesday in Paris for “sexual assault”, AFP learned on Saturday from the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the Parisian.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP that it had “received (this) complaint from the head of sexual assault. It is being analyzed”.
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The complainant is a former journalist from BFMTV and RMC who filed a complaint with the 16th arrondissement police station.
This 33-year-old woman, who worked “for several years” with the BFMTV-RMC morning journalist, claims that he “grabbed her by the neck and tried to kiss her several times. occasions” in a swimming pool of a hotel in Calvi in 2013, during a business trip, according to the account of the daily newspaper confirmed by Me Laure Heinich, lawyer for the complainant.
This journalist would have “struggled” and would have managed to get out of the pool. Mr. Bourdin would then have said: “I always get what I want”. Then he would have sent him, still according to this account, “for several months insistent emails and SMS”.
“Men of power must ask themselves the question of the authority they exercise over women when they try to obtain sexual favors, since of course this history of authority reduces women to silence. It is for that it took several years to file a complaint”, commented Me Heinich.
Me Jacqueline Laffont, lawyer for Mr. Bourdin, did not respond to AFP.
The host denied these accusations. “I know this person, and I have worked with her. I admit having bathed with her in the swimming pool of this hotel. But I have never tried to kiss her by force, neither her nor anyone else. ‘other,’ he replied to the daily Le Parisien.
Asked by AFP, BFMTV-RMC, the first continuous news channel which placed Jean-Jacques Bourdin at the heart of its system for the presidential election, did not wish to comment on the case.
Dismissed from the morning show of RMC in the summer of 2020 after 19 years of service, Jean-Jacques Bourdin leads his last season at the head of the political interview at 8:30 a.m. on the radio and the continuous news channel of the Altice Media group. .
A figure of the station, known for his uncompromising interviews, the 72-year-old host started as a sports journalist on RTL in 1976, where he made a career before joining RMC.
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