Friday June 17, 2022, the management of BFMTV and RMC announced that Jean-Jacques Bourdin will no longer collaborate with the Altice group. For the moment, the journalist has not spoken publicly following his ouster.
Tuesday January 11, 2022, a former BFMTV journalist filed a complaint against Jean-Jacques Bourdin for attempted sexual assault. If the journalist had denied the facts of which he is accused, he had been removed from the antenna of BFMTV and RMC. On Friday, June 17, 2021, through a press release, it was announced: “Due to the events that occurred and were brought to the attention of Management during 2022, Management has decided to terminate the employment contract of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin and thus cease all collaboration.“On Twitter, a user was delighted with this news. “A single sentence, but several complaints and victims of this sexual predator. Deserved. 73 years old, it was high time for him to retire…“, she wrote. Another slipped: “I didn’t think I would say that, but the government should take an example from RMC.“
Dismissed from the antenna, Jean-Jacques Bourdin had declared in a press release sent to AFP by his lawyer a few months earlier: “I regret the unilateral decision of the BFMTV and RMC group to withdraw me from the antennas to prevent the risk of instrumentalization of the complaint of which I am the subject.“While this decision would have made it”furious“, the sports journalist Dominique Grimaud had confided in the columns of the Parisian : “Will he find a microphone? The problem is age. You have to know how to bow out. And then, it’s like for Pierre Ménès, whether he is found guilty or not, his image is damaged. It will come out damaged. That’s the saddest thing.“
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, soon on CNews?
In January 2022, according to the Parisian, the journalist would have boasted of having met Vincent Bolloré, the big boss of the Canal group. He would then have shouted around him: “I go to CNews whenever I want!“However, a manager of the private group had slipped:”There’s zero chance.” While Jean-Jacques Bourdin had been surveyed last spring for a possible arrival on Europe 1, someone close to the file had said: “It went wrong. His behavior, a guy who wants to decide everything, does not fit with the state of mind of Bolloré, who rather appreciates courteous and pleasant employees.“
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Friday, June 17, 2021, through a press release, it was announced: “Due to the events that occurred and were brought to the attention of the Management during the year 2022, the Management has decided to terminate to the employment contract of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin and thus cease all collaboration.”
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On Twitter, a user was delighted with this news. “A single sentence but several complaints and victims of this sexual predator. Deserved. 73 years old, it was high time for him to retire…”, she wrote.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Dismissed from the antenna, Jean-Jacques Bourdin had declared in a press release sent to AFP by his lawyer a few months earlier: “I regret the unilateral decision of the BFMTV group and RMC to withdraw me from the antennas to prevent risks of instrumentalization of the complaint of which I am the subject.”
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While this decision would have made him “furious”, sports journalist Dominique Grimaud had confided in the columns of Le Parisien: “Will he find a microphone? The problem is age.”
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Jean-Jacques Bourdin at the RMC, RMC Sport and BFM TV back-to-school 2019-2020 press conference at Altice Campus in Paris on August 28, 2019.
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The investigation targeting Jean-Jacques Bourdin for sexual assault closed without further action.
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Jean-Jacques Bourdin will not return to BFMTV.
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Jean-Jacques Bourdin has not yet reacted publicly to this news.
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Jean-Jacques Bourdin at a press conference for the start of the BFMTV season 2021/2022 at the Altice Campus in Paris, August 25, 2021.
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Jean Jacques Bourdin
Friday June 17, 2022, the management of BFMTV and RMC announced that Jean-Jacques Bourdin will no longer collaborate with the Altice group.