Jean-Jacques Bourdin: the journalist targeted by a complaint for attempted sexual assault

Jean-Jacques Bourdin is in the sights of justice. According to information from Parisian, relayed on Saturday January 15, 2022, a complaint was filed against him. Indeed, a former RMC journalist has decided to come out of silence and lodge a complaint against him when she assures that he would have tried to kiss her by force in a hotel swimming pool during a press trip to Corsica. The facts date back to 2013. After nine years, as times have changed, she decided to push the doors of the police station in the 16th arrondissement of Paris on Tuesday January 11, 2022, still according to information from the daily, to file a complaint for attempted sexual assault against Jean-Jacques Bourdin.

Contacted, the main interested party denies the facts. “I know this person, and I worked with her. I admit having bathed with her in the swimming pool of this hotel. But I never tried to kiss her by force, neither, nor anyone else“, thus confided the journalist, who said he was shocked to learn of this complaint against him. For her part, the complainant, who is 33 years old today, explained that she had no today more afraid of the authority that the journalist could represent.”I’m no longer a young journalist scared of losing my job and I know I didn’t have to go through what I went through.“, she said, always with our colleagues from the Parisian.

Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have sent messages to the complainant

The latter also assured, during her testimony, that she had received numerous text messages or emails from the presenter after the facts recounted. She assured that she never answered it. She would have presented one to the investigators. The journalist would then have written:You tempt me every morning… I like your look“. For now, Jean-Jacques Bourdin remains presumed innocent.

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