By SudOuest.fr with AFP
The complainant, who is a former employee of BFMTV and RMC, claims that the journalist “grabbed her by the neck and tried to kiss her several times” during a business trip.
Flagship political journalist of RMC and BFMTV, Jean-Jacques Bourdin is the subject of a complaint filed Tuesday in Paris for “sexual assault”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the “Parisian”. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that it had “received (this) complaint from the head of sexual assault. It is being analyzed”. These facts are possibly prescribed.
The complainant is a former journalist from BFMTV and RMC who filed a complaint with the 16th arrondissement police station. This 33-year-old woman, who worked “for several years” with the journalist on the BFMTV-RMC morning show, claims that he “grabbed her by the neck and tried to kiss her several times. occasions” in a swimming pool of a hotel in Calvi in 2013, during a business trip, according to the account of the daily newspaper confirmed by Me Laure Heinich, lawyer for the complainant.
“Insistent emails and SMS”
This journalist is said to have “struggled” and managed to get out of the pool. Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have said: “I always get what I want”. Then he would have sent him, still according to this account, “for several months insistent emails and SMS”. “Powerful men need to ask themselves the question of the authority they exercise over women when they try to obtain sexual favors, since of course this history of authority reduces women to silence. This is why it took several years to file a complaint, ”commented Me Laure Heinich.
The host denied these accusations. “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 her nor anyone else, “he replied to the” Parisian “.
BFMTV-RMC, the first continuous news channel which placed Jean-Jacques Bourdin at the heart of its system for the presidential election, did not wish to comment on the case.