Targeted by a complaint for sexual assault filed by Fanny Agostini, Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have had very inappropriate behavior with several other young women.
Targeted by a complaint for sexual assault, Jean-Jacques Bourdin defends himself. He, for his part, pleads slander for facts twenty years old, supported by certain colleagues and his entourage. However, Radio France’s Investigation unit conducted the survey among journalists working or having worked with Jean-Jacques Bourdin. And tongues seem to be loosening. “Before the Sofitel affair [en 2011, NDLR]we knew he was very close to DSK [Dominique Strauss-Kahn, NDLR]. At the editorial office, we called them the two hot rabbits“, thus entrusted to the Investigation Unit of Radio France a journalist who has more than 15 years of seniority at RMC then BFM. This friendship is not reprehensible in law. However, an anecdote questions.
The name of Jean-Jacques Bourdin was given by a witness in the case of the Carlton of Lille for pimping. This witness was none other than a former RMC switchboard operator, whose personal number Jean-Jacques Bourdin had given to his friend DSK, at the request of the latter.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin cited in the Carlton affair
The 24-year-old young woman at the time then found herself drawn into the libertine evenings of DSK, a period which she described as a descent into hell. The employee who delivered this andecdote to the Investigation cell of Radio France underlines that the fact of having communicated the coordinates of a young woman to a man of the profile of DSK, “it challenges us“.
Other testimonies that question: that of a young woman of 19 at the time, whom Jean-Jacques Bourdin invites to lunch on the last day of his internship to tell him that she inspires his erotic stories. Sidonie Bonnec, journalist at France 2, said she declined an invitation in 2010 for a stay in Corsica, allegedly to discuss a professional project. Trip to which the journalist had advised him to take his swimsuit to enjoy the swimming pool of the private villa where he intended to accommodate her. She never heard from the host again after his refusal. In a statement sent to AFP, Jean-Jacques Bourdin “firmly denies having engaged in acts or attitudes likely to be repressed by law, both in his professional sphere and outside“.