After the accusations emanating from the journalist Fanny Agostini in mid-January, the journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin is the subject of a second complaint for “sexual assault” in particular, declared, Thursday, February 17, the lawyer for the complainant.
Mand Eric Morain confirmed to World and Agence France-Presse (AFP) daily information The Parisian about this complaint for “sexual assault”, “harassment” and “sexual exhibition”, filed Wednesday at the police station of 16and borough, already in charge of an investigation after a first complaint against Mr. Bourdin.
The second plaintiff recounts having hosted Mr. Bourdin in a communications company where she worked near Paris in 1988 and where he came to give a course in media training. According to her, the journalist quickly made sexual allusions to her and then offered to see her again.
Exhibition and proposals for priced reports
Some time later, they would have found themselves in a car near RTL, where Mr. Bourdin was then working, and the journalist would have “makes his penis appear erect” and allegedly asked for sex, offering her “2000 francs”, according to his account. He would then have tried to kiss her “rather brutally by bringing his body closer to the [sien] and in [la] stuck against the door. »
“He grabbed my left hand with his right hand and directed it towards his still erect penis”, continues the complainant. Subsequently, Mr. Bourdin would have had problematic sexual behavior during new visits to work with her, “masturbating while [la] watching”, for example.
In mid-January, journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter for RMC – BFM-TV, filed a complaint for “attempted sexual assault”, facts that would have occurred in 2013 in Corsica, in Calvi. The facts denounced by the two complainants could be prescribed since the time limit in this matter is six years.
Mr. Bourdin’s lawyer, Mr.and Christian Saint-Palais, said to himself “scandalized that one can undermine a man’s honor by evoking facts whose reality Jean-Jacques Bourdin absolutely disputes, and which would be thirty-four years old”. “I expect the prosecution to file this complaint without delay on the simple observation that such facts would obviously be time-barred”asked the criminal.
The journalist, temporarily removed from the air on BFM-TV and RMCalready had “firmly contested having engaged in acts or attitudes likely to be repressed by law, both in his professional sphere and outside it”.