In recent weeks, nothing is going well for Jean-Jacques Bourdin. The famous 72-year-old radio host, star of RMC and BFMTV, is accused of attempted sexual assault. We recently learned that it is Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter from the same group as him and ex-host of Thalassa, which is the source of the complaint. After which, Anne Nivat’s husband “strongly contested“ the facts with which he is charged. And while an investigation was opened on January 18 by the Paris prosecutor’s office, Jean-Jacques Bourdin is now the subject of a new case.
Indeed, our colleagues from Parisian just revealed that a 61-year-old woman had lodged a complaint with the police station of the 16th arrondissement of Paris on Wednesday, February 16. She accuses him ofsexual assault“, of “harassment” and D'”sexual display“. Actions now prescribed dating from 1988, 36 years ago. Nicknamed Marie by The Parisian to preserve her true identity, she told the police that she had met Jean-Jacques Bourdin at that time when she was working as a switchboard operator in a communications company in Neuilly-Plaisance. The journalist gave media training courses there. As soon as their paths first crossed, Mary would have felt “naked look“and would have heard”grunts of contentment and satisfaction“from Jean-Jacques Bourdin, who found it”very sexy, to have been excited and to have made it hard“.
If I was nice, there would be others, checks
Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have been very insistent towards the 28-year-old young woman, going so far as to invite her to visit the premises of RTL. Which she accepted. The animator had then recovered it “a little further than the entrance to the agency“.”He parked in a side street. (…) He looked at me in a very intense way and everything happened quickly. He opened the fly of his pants and revealed his penis erect. He was like going into a trance. He had a new face, a double face. He told me : ‘I know you want it too‘” Marie recounted, adding that he had even offered to pay her.”He told me that he loved doing this by paying (…) He asked me to play the whore, the slut. (…) He asked me how much I wanted. He said 2,000 francs and filled out the check. I remember the blue ink and a fly-like handwriting. He was shaking and told me if I was nice to him and did what he wanted there would be more checks.”
Once the check was completed, Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have been more enterprising. “I was cornered, I tried to push him away. He grabbed my left hand with his right hand and directed it towards his still erect penis.. (…) I don’t know if I touched his penis or if I just touched it, I was scared and I looked for an escape. As I was going out I heard him say in an angry voice: ‘You turned me on, you little bitch’.”
After this traumatic episode, Marie shut herself up in silence, fearing she would be fired. Even when she had to meet Jean-Jacques Bourdin again. “After appointments, he went to the toilets which were opposite the switchboard (…) He jammed the door with his foot and masturbated while looking at me. I pretended not to see it“, she testified again. Today, Mary frees her word and wishes that “justice is done, and may other women find that same courage“.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin remains presumed innocent of the facts of which he is accused until the end of the investigation.