Jean-Jacques Bourdin will not return to the antenna of RMC and BFMTV – The HuffPost

ALAIN JOCARD via AFPJean-Jacques Bourdin had been “temporarily” removed from the air on BFMTV and RMC on January 23, after the announcement of the opening of an investigation targeting himMEDIAS – Jean-Jacques Bourdin will not return to antenna of RMC and BFMTV. Suspended “temporarily” since January after the opening of an investigation for sexual assault, the host was finally dismissed by the group. n the year 2022, the management has decided to terminate the employment contract of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin and thus cease all collaboration”, announced the Altice group in a laconic press release this Friday, June 17. The host said he was “liberated” on Twitter: “21 years of success on #RMC#BFMTV#RMCD. We are separating, I am so happy to be released, I am leaving for new adventures and I will never forget those who accompanied me.. long live free and independent journalism!!” 21 years of success on #RMC#BFMTV#RMCD. We are separating, I am so happy to be released, I am leaving for new adventures and I will never forget those who accompanied me.. long live free and independent journalism!!— Jean-Jacques Bourdin (@ JJBourdin_RMC) June 17, 2022Last January, Le Parisien revealed that a complaint for facts dating back to 2013 had been filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin, before the Paris prosecutor’s office indicated that it had opened a preliminary investigation for sexual assault, entrusted at the 16th arrondissement police station. A few weeks later, the former weather presenter of RMC-BFMTV Fanny Agostini revealed in Mediapart to be at the origin of this complaint. In her complaint, consulted by AFP, she said that Jean-Jacques Bourdin had “grabbed her neck”, had “brought her face closer” to hers and had “tried to (the) kiss several times”, without “reach”, in the swimming pool of a hotel in Calvi in ​​Corsica. A second woman had also filed a complaint for sexual assault, harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing Jean-Jacques Bourdin of facts that occurred in the late 1980s. closed for prescriptionOn April 7, the Paris prosecutor’s office closed its investigation for sexual assault without action because of prescription of the facts. The time limit for this is six years. This “classification is not a surprise since the complaint was effectively time-barred”, had declared to AFP Me Laure Heinich, lawyer for Fanny Agostini, regretting however not to have been informed “of any act of investigation, nor by the police, nor by the prosecution”. The host claimed in a press release to have “always firmly contested the facts” with which he is accused. And to denounce, according to him, “the public instrumentalization of this procedure” and deplore the “serious attacks which have been brought to [sa] personal life and [sa] professional life”. After Fanny Agostini’s complaint was closed for prescription, the Altice Media group refused to comment on this court decision, but told AFP that an internal investigation, launched as soon as the first complaint was revealed, was “still in progress. Classes”. Internal investigation which today seems to lead to the group’s decision to “cease all collaboration” with Jean-Jacques Bourdin. See also on The HuffPost: With #MeToo politics, the resignation of Darmanin demanded by these demonstrators