Jean-Jacques Bourdin sacked by the Altice group, owner of BFMTV and RMC – Ouest-France

Journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, formerly at the presentation of the morning interview of BFMTV and RMC, was dismissed by the Altice group, owner of the two channels, this Friday, June 17, 2022. The management of the Altice Media group has announced that it will cease all collaboration with its star journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, 73, dismissed from the air since January after the opening of an investigation for sexual assault, classified for prescription. “Due to the events that occurred and were brought to the attention of the management during the year 2022”, the latter “decided to put an end to the employment contract of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin and thus cease all collaboration”, she said in a statement. An internal investigation commissioned by Altice Media The group had commissioned an internal investigation in mid-January, after learning “through the press” that its journalist was the subject of a complaint for “sexual assault”. In the process, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation, in the midst of the presidential campaign, precipitating the suspension of the antenna of the journalist, who “always firmly contested” any sexual violence. About a month later, his colleague Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter of BFMTV-RMC, then passed by Thalassa, had revealed to Mediapart to be at the origin of this complaint filed for attempted sexual assault. According to her, the facts occurred in Corsica in October 2013. In her complaint, consulted by AFP, she said that Jean-Jacques Bourdin had “grabbed her neck”, had “closed his face” to hers and had ” tried to (the) kiss several times “, without ” succeeding “, in the swimming pool of a hotel in Calvi (Haute-Corse). She would have “struggled” and managed to get out of the pool. Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have said: “I always get what I want”, “a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendant” according to her. A second complaint filed for facts dating from the 1980s Then he would have sent her “for several months” insistent emails and text messages, according to the journalist now 33 years old, who says he “was constantly in fear” until his departure from the group in 2017. In mid-February, a second woman had filed a complaint for “sexual assault”, “harassment” and “sexual exhibition”, accusing Jean-Jacques Bourdin of facts that occurred in the late 1980s The investigation was dismissed in April due to prescription of the facts, the delay in the matter being six years. “I denounce the public instrumentalization of this procedure and deplore the serious attacks which have been made on my personal life and my professional life”, reacted the journalist, who has always firmly contested the facts with which he is accused. Jean-Jacques Bourdin sacked by the Altice group, owner of BFMTV and RMCGRANDIR