In June 2022, after several months ousted from BFMTV, Jean-Jacques Bourdin had been definitively removed from the antenna. In the columns of Le Parisien, the boss of the chain, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, did not want to say more about the conclusions of the investigation concerning the journalist.
It was a case that caused a stir. In January 2022, Jean Jacques Bourdin was the subject of a complaint for attempted sexual assault. Faced with the many repercussions, the management of BFMTV had decided to temporarily remove him from the channel while the internal investigation was carried out. Only, in June 2022, the journalist was definitively dismissed. Our colleagues from Parisian then wanted to know the conclusions of this investigation. During an interview with the daily, Marc-Olivier Fogiel preferred to kick in touch. “They are not intended to be made public.“, he started at first.
“Beyond this year’s events, I also remember that Jean-Jacques Bourdin contributed for fifteen years to the success of BFMTV. My stake now is the future. In recent years, we have been able to prepare for the future and promote a new generation of credible and popular journalists. I am thinking of Apolline de Malherbe, who will present Face to Face (the morning political interview) every day, but also of Maxime Switek and Bruce Toussaint. With this team of forties, the succession is assured“, he confided.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin had not hidden his anger at being dismissed from BFMTV
When he had been temporarily removed from the antenna, the journalist did not hide his anger. “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“, had thus written the journalist in a press release sent to Agence France-Presse by his lawyer. He had deplored “that the principle of presumption of innocence be ignored“.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin is the subject of a complaint for attempted sexual assault.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Marc-Olivier Fogiel had requested the opening of an internal investigation during the complaint.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin has been dismissed from BFMTV.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Marc-Olivier Fogiel did not want to reveal the content of the internal investigation.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin at a Book Fair.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Marc-Olivier Fogiel at the funeral of Etienne Mougeotte.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not hide his anger.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Marc-Olivier Fogiel at a rally in tribute to the French journalist killed in Ukraine, Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin officiated for many years on BFMTV.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Marc-Olivier Fogiel is the general manager of BFMTV.