Journalist Fanny Agostini reveals, Monday April 14, in Mediapart be at the origin of the complaint for “attempted sexual assault” filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin. The news site has collected other testimonies, some identified, others anonymous, targeting the famous host.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, temporarily removed from the air on BFM-TV and RMC, denies the facts of which Fanny Agostini accuses him.
An investigation was entrusted by the Paris prosecutor’s office to the police station of 16and district and an internal investigation was opened by Altice, parent company of BFM-TV and RMC.
Former weather presenter of RMC – BFM-TV, then passed by Thalassa, Fanny Agostini gives in Mediapart her version of the facts dating back to 2013, when she participated in the Calvi Petanque Open (Haute-Corse), where Jean-Jacques Bourdin was also invited.
One morning, she swims in the hotel pool. Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have approached ” very quickly “would have “grabbed by the neck, on the side”and would have “suddenly drawn to him” trying to kiss her ” Many times “. “Surprising”she says she doesn’t have “not shouted”but to be “debated” and managed to get out of the water.
“I always get what I want”
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, can we read in Mediapart, then said to him: “I always get what I want. » A sentence that “punctuated [ses] nightmares for years ». And that Fanny Agostini says she lived “as a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendancy”.
She then assures that between September 2014 and spring 2015, the host sent her, in the midst of professional exchanges, many messages with a sexual connotation. Like that of November 27, 2014, that Mediapart said to have obtained, received on his professional email: “You tempt me every morning… I like your look”. Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not respond to Mediapart, who says he asked for it on all the testimonies.
Journalist Sidonie Bonnec, host on France 2 and France Bleu, also testifies on the news site. A young reporter wishing to do radio, she was invited to a festival in Calvi by Jean-Jacques Bourdin in 2010. The host, according to the words of the young woman, assured her that she would be staying at a hotel. But, before leaving, he would have called her to tell her that the hotel was full but that ” luck “he “has a villa with a friend”. He would have added: “There’s a swimming pool, don’t forget your bathing suit. » “This sentence cut my legsshe said to Mediapart, it wasn’t professional at all. »
Arrived at the airport with her companion, she says she saw Jean-Jacques Bourdin who would have been content to send them a greeting ” from afar “. “After that, I never heard from anyone again. Of course, I never got the job.she points out.