“Heavy, insistent, sticky”: new anonymous testimonies denounce the behavior of Jean-Jacques Bourdin

Emptying his bag is not easy for the colleagues of Jean-Jacques Bourdin. Most don’t want “to appear publicly” when they are asked to discuss the journalist’s relationship with his collaborators. The star presenter of RMC would thus intimidate a lot of people in the corridors of the editorial staff, as indicated by a journalist today in another media: “ It makes and breaks careers. You won’t find anyone in the matinee to speak ill of him. “A testimony contradicted by a former colleague who worked at RMC between 2015 and 2019:” He was professional and benevolent, sometimes temperamental and diva, but it did not go beyond the framework. “His reputation as an aggressive seducer is also denied by a former executive of the house:” He likes women, he’s the type to stare at them insistently, but that’s all. Those who neither wish to overwhelm nor defend him cannot imagine him in the shoes of a stalker or an aggressor.

However, new anonymous testimonies paint a completely different portrait of Jean-Jacques Bourdin. A journalist revealed to the Cellule investigation of Radio France that the presenter was notably very close to the controversial DSK before the Sofitel affair, in 2011. The name of Bourdin was also pronounced in the sulphurous affair of the Carlton of Lille. It would be a trainee switchboard operator from RMC, then 24 years old, on whom DSK would have ” flashed visiting the radio as part of a program. At his request, Bourdin would have communicated to him the number of the young woman, which confirms an order for referral to the criminal court. This is the beginning of a “descent into hell” for the switchboard operator that the future boss of the IMF takes in libertine evenings.

New anonymous testimonies against Jean-Jacques Bourdin

Three other testimonies compiled by France Inter testify to the erratic behavior of Jean-Jacques Bourdin with regard to the fairer sex. In 1996, while presenting the midday program Les Auditors ont la parole, the journalist invited a 19-year-old trainee in the economic service to lunch. The story of the witness, now in his forties, is blood-curdling: ” He invites me to Flore’s cafe. Very quickly, he told me that he writes erotic literature under a pseudonym, that I inspire him a lot and that he would like me to accompany him to the banks of the Seine, the place of his stories. His word was heard on February 9 at the police station in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was then another colleague of Jean-Jacques Bourdin in the early 2000s who mentioned writing as “a playground, not a hunting ground” for the moderator. ” He was trying. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. It could be heavy, insistent, sticky. There was a question of influence, especially for journalists fresh out of school. »

Nth witness present at the 16th arrondissement police station, Sidonie Bonnec, presenter of the program Wait a minute on France Bleu and gaming Everyone has a say on France 2, remembers the consequences of his meeting with Jean-Jacques Bourdin within the framework of a program by Jean-Marc Morandini. After offering him a collaboration, the RMC journalist invites him to come to Calvi, in Corsica to expand ” his address book at a festival attended by media personalities. ” She will lodged “in a villa with him and a friend of his”. Bourdin also enjoins him to take his bathing suit to enjoy the swimming pool. Sidonie Bonnec foresees a trick and declines the proposal. “ He never heard from me even though I had been working on the project for weeks. “For his part, Jean-Jacques Bourdin disputes these testimonies in a press release sent via AFP and” expresses its gratitude to those who support it “. Case to follow…

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